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Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Evelyn Underhill quotes about life

English Writer December 6, 1875 – June 15, 1941

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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... Evelyn Underhill
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
The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become. Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill quote: "He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail:..."
He goes because he must, as Galahad went towards the Grail: knowing that for those who can live it, this alone is life. Evelyn Underhill
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur. Evelyn Underhill

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