Quotes about Inward

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Attitude is an inner concept. It is the most important thing you can develop in your life.

Since the mind occupies so high a place in the scale of our beings, and since it is the most active of our inward faculties, ever working, then what a fearful state for the soul to be blind! John Flavel said it is "like a fiery, high-mettled horse whose eyes cannot see, furiously carrying his rider upon rocks, pits and dangerous precipices.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

Be awed by the Power and the Glory of My Spirit within you! Though

It is within you that the divine lives.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Slowly it gets to be a waiting whose outward sense I cannot comprehend; the inward reason must be found daily. Both of us have lost infinitely much during the past months; time today is a costly commodity, for who knows how much more time is given to us.7 Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Maria von Wedemeyer, 20 September 1943