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Evelyn Underhill Quotes

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

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

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, Carol Poston (2010). “The Making of a Mystic: New and Selected Letters of Evelyn Underhill”, p.273, University of Illinois Press

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

Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.85, Wipf and Stock Publishers