Evelyn Underhill Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

  Evelyn Underhill

  God, Christian, Religious

• 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

• 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 world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Acceptance, Reality, Religion

• 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”

• religion, like beauty, cannot be experienced in cold blood.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Blood, Religion, Cold

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

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