Evelyn Underhill Mysticism Quotes

#1. Not my enemy! Not my problem.
(Red Knight)

Miles Cameron

#2. The business and method of mysticism is love.

Evelyn Underhill

#3. Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

Paul R. Hill

#4. True contemplation can only thrive when defended from two opposite exaggerations: quietism on the one hand, and spiritual fuss upon the other. Neither from passivity nor from anxiety has it anything to gain.

Evelyn Underhill

#5. AA makes Scientology look credible,

Doug Stanhope

#6. It is natural for the mind to believe, and for the will to love; [47] so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Blaise Pascal

#7. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)

Adam Alter

#8. Suffering makes the soul search spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. There was never a cataclysmic moment in which things might have been, however briefly, etched in relief against memory, against things to come - a moment which, by its sheer magnitude, defined her history and her future. Instead, Kathryn thinks, she has disintegrated slowly over a number of years.

Christina Baker Kline

#10. Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God ...

Evelyn Underhill

#11. My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that, and to go to UCLA, and to become someone great in life!

Mila Kunis

#12. When you are always ready for the worst, then the worst is likely to show up

Gary Hopkins

#13. We dare not harm this little girl," he said to them, "for she is protected by the Power of Good, and that is greater than the Power of Evil. All we can do is carry her to the castle of the Wicked Witch and leave her there.

L. Frank Baum

#14. Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

Evelyn Underhill

#15. If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Plato

#16. Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. What made you immortal? (Nick)
Really good DNA. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. You need to be careful with a Bluetooth headset. Because some guys look crazy with them.

Neil Strauss