Quotes about External

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.

Reason, therefore, demonstrates that external events do not depend on us, but that it is our own business to use them in this way or the opposite, having received reason as a judge and an investigator of the manner in which we ought to meet those events that come from without. 6.

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

Our Lord Himself, not being detached from things externally. Our Lord was amazingly in and out among ordinary things; His detachment was on the inside towards God. External detachment is often an indication of a secret vital attachment to the things we keep away from externally.

Have you ever had a crisis in your life in which you deliberately, earnestly, and recklessly abandoned everything? It is a crisis of the will. You may come to that point many times externally, but it will amount to nothing. The true deep crisis of abandonment, or total surrender, is reached internally, not externally. The giving up of only external things may actually be an indication of your being in total bondage.

External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.

This bewildering call of God comes into our lives as well. The call of God can never be understood absolutely or explained externally; it is a call that can only be perceived and understood internally by our true inner nature. The call of God is like the call of the sea—no one hears it except the person who has the nature of the sea in him.

The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.

If you could defeat sin by separating yourself from its external manifestations, Jesus would never have needed to come.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”