Evelyn Underhill

“Prayer is not a discourse. It is a communion. It is a lifting up of the heart to God.”

“Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.”

“Love is the only spiritual power that can overcome the self-centeredness that is inherent in being human.”

“Worship is the loving ascription of worth to God.”

“God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment.”

“A spiritual life is simply a life in which all that we do comes from the centre, where we are anchored in God.”

“The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things.”

“True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace.”

“The true object of the spiritual quest is a total transformation of the self.”

“Every real advance in the spiritual life begins with a new humility.”

“The essence of prayer is a leaning toward God.”

“All our difficult relationships with our fellow-men are tests of the reality of our love for God.”

“Patience is the virtue of the long road, the virtue of the long view.”

“We are all the kindred of the mystics.”

“Our duty is to be in the world as a seed of the divine.”

“Adoration is the spontaneous yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God.”