Evelyn Underhill Quotes

God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.

I think religion is often very different from spirituality. Religion is often about rules and people trying to control our lives who are actually very unspiritual... God can be found anywhere, and in fact, everywhere. And you don

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.

We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.

Whatever it is that can help to bring God close is something to be revered.

When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.

I do have a strong sense of God. It's impossible to explain what I mean when I say that, of course.

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Do I believe in God? I don't know what that really means. I don't know what my personal connections with G-o-d are. But spirituality is soulfulness.