Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Life is God's art.

Nature is the art of God.

God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator. Science brings men nearer to God.

Creation is an act of love and it is perpetual.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

God to me is love.

My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot divorce the two. To create is to love. To love is to create.

We often forget that everything we see, animate or inanimate, is a visual manifestation of the work of our invisible God. We have become so accustomed to trees, mountains, sky, air, water, flowers, animals, vegetables and people that we no longer see them for what they are - God's work.

The universe itself was created by the sound waves which that almighty created. So music and spirituality go together. Everything is interconnected.

One day, a philosopher asked, "What is the purpose of creation?" "Lovemaking," said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, "Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever."

For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God damn'; that 'an artist, a man, a failure' is no mere whenfully accreting mechanism, but a givingly eternal complexity-neither some soulless and heartless ultrapredatory infra-animal nor any understandingly knowing and believing and thinking automaton, but a naturally and miraculously whole human being-a feelingly illimitable individual; whose only happiness is to transcend himself, whose every agony is to grow.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.