Deliberately seek opportunities for kind... by Evelyn Underhill | We Heart Quotes

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Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

- Evelyn Underhill

Other quotes by Evelyn Underhill

Present God

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

- Evelyn Underhill

Soul God Time

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

- Evelyn Underhill

Soul God

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

- Evelyn Underhill

Home God

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

- Evelyn Underhill

Imagination Will

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

- Evelyn Underhill

Husband

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

- Evelyn Underhill

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