Quotes about External
External detachment is often an actual indication of a secret, growing, inner attachment to the things we stay away from externally.
— Oswald Chambers
Some of us are addicted to what others think.
— Peter Scazzero
Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.
— Francis Schaeffer
The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.
— Martin Luther
When New Testament authors stress that salvation is not arrived at by works, as first-century Jews, these authors are referring to works of the law. They are saying that God's righteousness does not come by external obedience to the law, as some Jews of their day supposed.
— Gregory Boyd
The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics.
— Josh McDowell
When you choose to be patient, you respond in a positive way to a negative situation. You are slow to anger. You choose to have a long fuse instead of a quick temper. Rather than being restless and demanding, love helps you settle down and begin extending mercy to those around you. Patience brings an internal calm during an external storm.
— Stephen Kendrick
The kingdom of self tends to be more focused on what the hands can touch than what the heart should embrace.
— Paul David Tripp
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.
— Oswald Chambers
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.
— Oswald Chambers
A church that focuses on the external has lost its passion for souls.
— Bishop TD Jakes
By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter
— John Calvin