Adoration is caring for God above all else.
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

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

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
Evelyn Underhill

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

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
Evelyn Underhill

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
Evelyn Underhill

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

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.
Evelyn Underhill

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill


The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
Evelyn Underhill

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

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.
Evelyn Underhill

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.
Evelyn Underhill

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.
Evelyn Underhill

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
Evelyn Underhill