Quotes by Evelyn Underhill

• God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.
• You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
• Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
• Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
• There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
• The will is what matters - as long as you have that, you are safe.
• The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
• Adoration is caring for God above all else.
• God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
• God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
• Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
• Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
• All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
• After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
• Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
• In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.