Quotes about Inwardness
Maybe we are overdeveloped outwardly and underdeveloped inwardly. Perhaps it is we who, for all our wealth, are living in poverty.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!
- Martin Luther
There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman
- Coco Chanel
He who loveth Jesus, and is inwardly true and free from inordinate affections, is able to turn himself readily unto God, and to rise above himself in spirit, and to enjoy fruitful peace.
- Thomas a Kempis
Self-Sufficiency
- Timothy Lane
Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.
- Eugene Peterson
Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in.
- St. Augustine
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
- Anne Frank
Ascension joy—inwardly we must become very quiet to hear the soft sound of this phrase at all. Joy lives in its quietness and incomprehensibility. This joy is in fact incomprehensible, for the comprehensible never makes for joy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind
- Andy Andrews
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
- Teresa of Avila
God for us, God alongside us, God within us.
- Fr. Richard Rohr