Inward Quotes
From innumerable complexities we must grow to simplicity; we must become simple in our inward life and in our outward needs.
Our faith, trust, and love are proved and revealed in adversities, that is, in difficult and grievous outward and inward circumstances, during sickness, sorrow, and privations.
We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled
Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.
The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.
Self-reliance is the key to a vigorous life. A man must look inward to find his own answers.
Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.
None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom, or indifference over his inward joy.
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?
Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the Father would send.
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts.
Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.
Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.
For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.
One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
Islam is a way of life which opens the heart to the meaning of existence. Thus any increase of outward splendor is usually a sign of a decrease in inward illumination
