Inward Quotes
Inward Quote of the day
The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.
Take the very hardest thing in your life - the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.
For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
People try to create an outwardly perfect life, but the quality of life is based on the inward.
We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.
When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.
When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.
People have an overbearing need to project their inward doubt and hatred and emotions onto the outside world.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.
There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.
Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it.
Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.
Princes have but their titles for their glories, An outward honor for an inward toil; And, for unfelt imaginations, They often feel a world of restless cares.
All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
Gods suppressed become devils, and often it is these devils whom we first encounter when we turn inward.
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
The inward battle--against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past--is more terrible than outward battle.
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.