Quotes about External

For what else is tragedy than the portrayal in tragic verse of the sufferings of men who have attached high value to external things?

Some of us are addicted to what others think.

Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.

A political victory, a rise in rents, the recovery of your sick, or return of your absent friend, or some other quite external event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.

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.

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

There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

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.