Evelyn Underhill Quotes

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

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

Gratitude opens your heart, and opening your heart is a wonderful and easy way for God to slip in.

When you pray, remember that you are not praying to a distant God, but to the God that dwells within you. Don't just speak the words; feel what they mean in your life. Don't pray from your lips, but from your heart. Your prayers aren't for God, they are for you, to remind you of the presence of the Holy Spirit within you. When you say "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," remember that you are loved and protected. God has planned greater things for us than we can imagine. The more we maintain an awareness of God's unchanging love, the safer and more at home we will feel in the world.

Faith shows us that we are never alone. Transformation helps us to love the mystery.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

It is not to remain in a golden ciborium that He comes down each day from Heaven, but to find another Heaven, the Heaven of our soul in which He takes delight.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

It didn't matter if it was the Catholic Church or Episcopal Church or Presbyterian Church and it still doesn't today. I just like the tradition of having a place to go and connect to a higher power and feel gratitude, and I think that's helpful however you find it.

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

When you turn to God you discover He has been facing you all the time.