Evelyn Underhill Quotes about Soul

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Soul, Passionate, Longing

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

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

Spiritual, Soul, Individual

Evelyn Underhill (2015). “Mixed Pasture: Twelve Essays and Addresses”, p.51, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

Evelyn Underhill

Character, Soul, Corners

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

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

Evelyn Underhill

Spiritual, Soul, Acting

The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

Evelyn Underhill

Soul, Humanity, Secret

Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response to its environment, God. He has achieved a deeper, bigger life than the rest of us, a more wonderful contact with the mysteries of the Universe; a life of infinite possibility, the term of which he never feels that he has reached.

Evelyn Underhill

Soul, Saint, Mystery

Evelyn Underhill (2006). “Lent With Evelyn Underhill”, p.34, A&C Black

Grace is God himself, his loving energy at work within his church and within our souls.

Evelyn Underhill

Grace, Soul, Church

Evelyn Underhill (1989). “The Fruits of the Spirit”, p.24, Church Publishing, Inc.

Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the first need... but more devoted, adoring, sacrificial souls.

Evelyn Underhill

Soul, Suffering, Firsts

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