Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century.

Date of birth:
6th December, 1875
Date of death:
15th June, 1941
"Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): Patience
"Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): Imagination
"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."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): Good
"Adoration is caring for God above all else."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): God
"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."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): Best
"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."
― Evelyn Underhill
Topic(s): Beauty

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