Evelyn Underhill Quotes about God

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If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.

Evelyn Underhill

God, Christian, Religious

Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.

Evelyn Underhill

God, Christian, Spiritual

Nothing in all nature is so lovely and so vigorous, so perfectly at home in its environment, as a fish in the sea. Its surroundings give to it a beauty, quality, and power which are not its own. We take it out, and at once a poor, limp dull thing, fit for nothing, is gasping away its life. So the soul, sunk in God, living the life of prayer, is supported, filled, transformed in beauty, by a vitality and a power which are not its own.

Evelyn Underhill

God, Prayer, Live Life

Evelyn Underhill (1990). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.74, Church Publishing, Inc.