Quotes about Inner

The focus of spiritual formation is the formation of our spirit.

Emotions are not amoral—they vocalize the inner working of our souls and are as tainted as any other portion of our personality.

Change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God. Only face to face with our deepest ruling passions is there hope of redeeming the fabric of our inner world.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.

The enemy is always in the mind.

No one of us ought to issue vetoes to the other, nor should we bandy words of abuse. We ought, on the contrary, delicately and profoundly to respect one another's mental freedom: then only shall we bring about the intellectual republic; then only shall we have that spirit of inner tolerance without which all our outer tolerance is soulless

I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.