Quotes about Inward
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
— Henry David Thoreau
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
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
pride (superbia) is not only by itself our primal sin: it also inwardly contaminates all intrinsically good dispositions and robs every virtue of its value before God.
— Dietrich von Hildebrand
Contentment is an inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit-the whole soul, judgment, thoughts, will, affections and all are satisfied and quiet.
— Jeremiah Burroughs
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
Spiritual power comes out of inward fellowship with God and abandonment to his purposes.
— E Stanley Jones
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
— Oswald Chambers
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
— Francis Schaeffer
He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.
— Aldous Huxley
F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad - namely a kind of reverential insensibility, a stupor of the spirit, an inward deafness to the meaning of the sacred words.
— Aldous Huxley
Who we are looking for is who is looking.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
Spiritual accountability proved insufficient for Peter, because no outward teaching can compare to the inward power of the Holy Spirit.
— Jim Cymbala