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.

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.

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

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.

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

Adoration is caring for God above all else.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses and sees perhaps for an instant perhaps for long periods of bliss an undistorted and more veritable world.

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

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

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.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

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

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

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

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.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

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

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

It is important to increase our sense of God's richness and wonder by reading what his great lovers have said about him.