Evelyn Underhill Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Spiritual

• On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Effort, Done

• Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Prayer, Responsibility

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed”, p.100, Aeterna Press

• The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Art, Prayer, Fixing

• As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Religious, Prayer, Feet

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Worship”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Home, Quiet

• Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Prayer, Live Life

  Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.

• Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Evelyn Underhill, Grace Aldophsen Brame (1993). “The Ways of the Spirit”, Crossroad Publishing Company

• Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Religious, Prayer

  Evelyn Underhill (1956). “The School of Charity: Meditations on the Christian Creed. The Mystery of Sacrifice, a Meditation on the Liturgy”

• The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Garden, Potatoes

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

• In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Soul

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.24, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Prayer, Mean, Doe

  Evelyn Underhill, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.159, University of Illinois Press

• If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Prayer, Effectiveness

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