Evelyn Underhill Quotes - Page 3

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• The mystic cannot wholly do without symbol and image, inadequate to his vision though they must always be: for his experience must be expressed if it is to be communicated, and its actuality is inexpressible except in some hint or parallel which will stimulate the dormant intuition of the reader.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Intuition, Vision, Hints

  Evelyn Underhill (2002). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness”, p.79, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Effectiveness

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• As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

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  Spiritual, Self, World

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.37, Church Publishing, Inc.

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

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  Prayer, Home, Quiet

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• The practical life of a vast number of people is not, as a matter of fact, worth while at all. It is like an impressive fur coat with no one inside it. One sees many of these coats occupying positions of great responsibility. Hans Andersen's story of the king with no clothes told one bitter and common truth about human nature; but the story of the clothes with no king describes a situation just as common and even more pitiable.

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  Kings, Responsibility, Clothes

  Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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• though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.

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  Spiritual, Real, Humility

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• You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

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  Peculiar

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• I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

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  Christmas, Ideas, Mixing

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

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  Prayer, Mean, Soul

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

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• 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.

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  Real, Self, World

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

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• All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

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  Artist

  "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness".

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• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

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  Heart, Long, World

  Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man’s Spiritual Consciousness”, p.288, Aeterna Press

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• I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

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  Hurt, Book, Reading

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• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

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  What Matters, Long, Safety

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• Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.

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  Soul, Suffering, Firsts

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

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• 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.

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  Acceptance, Reality, Religion

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• Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

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  Lying, Keys, Imagination

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.

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  Art, Real, Men

  Evelyn Underhill (2017). “The Complete Christian Mystic: A Practical, Step - By - Step Guide for Awakening to the Presence of God”, p.112, Lulu Press, Inc

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• As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

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  Beautiful, Artist, Reality

  Evelyn Underhill, Aeterna Press (2014). “Practical Mysticism”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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• It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.

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  Spiritual, Outlook On Life, Everyday

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• Love makes the whole difference between an execution and a martyrdom.

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  Differences, Execution, Martyrdom

  Evelyn Underhill (2004). “Light of Christ: Addresses given at the House of Retreat Pleshey, in May, 1932”, p.79, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.

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  Life, Spiritual, Simple

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• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that.

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  Feelings, Important, Matter

  "The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill".

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• We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

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  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

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• We mostly spend those lives conjugating three verbs: to Want, to Have, and to Do.

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  Life, Inspire, Three

  "Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings".

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