Evelyn Underhill Quotes

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

I sing the progress of a deathless soul.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.

Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

The older we become, the more difficult it is to fill our hearts with wonder. Only God is big enough to keep filling us with wonder.

We all have souls of different ages.

Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls, so it is to this we must look to becoming more spiritual, drawing nearer to God, no matter what our human minds and bodies go through.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

Your sole purpose in life is to attain God-realization. All else is useless and worthless.

I was in my late thirties and decided my intention in life had nothing to do with the acquiring of material things, but rather it was now my intention to experience the evolution of my own soul and to grow spiritually. I wanted to come to know the highest truths of life and to express those truths in action, through myself. I wanted to become the grandest version of the greatest idea I ever held about who I am in regards to my relationship with God.

For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.

Sometimes the most evolved souls take the most challenging paths

We will always find fundamentally the compulsion to become what the soul should be.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.