Evelyn Underhill Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Believe, Symphony

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.

• 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

• For the most part, of course, the presence of the great spiritual universe surrounding us is no more noticed by us than the pressure of air on our bodies, or the action of light. Our field of attention is not wide enough for that; our spiritual senses are not sufficiently alert. Most people work so hard at developing their correspondence with the visible world, that their power of correspondence with the invisible is left in a rudimentary state.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Spiritual, Light, Air

• As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Sheep, Perception, May

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.17, Aeterna Press

• It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it ... The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Real, Self, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.17, Aeterna Press

• A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Soul, Saint, Mystery

  Evelyn Underhill (2006). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.34, A&C Black

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