Quotes about Inward
Hannah Whitehall Smith, the author of The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, said, "God disciplines the soul by inward exercises and outward providences." What she means is that God will put into our hearts the right thing to do in every situation, but if we choose not to do it, then He will allow our circumstances to become our teacher.
— Joyce Meyer
All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.
— Watchman Nee
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.
— Thomas a Kempis
Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.
— John Piper
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.
— Carl Jung
Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.
— St. John Chrysostom
An attitude is: an inward feeling expressed by an outward action.
— John Maxwell
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
— William Hazlitt
Hence so much is said in the Scripture of the quickening, raising, and reviving the inward, new Man, of the new Birth from above, of Christ being formed in us, as the one only Redemption and Salvation of the Soul.
— William Law
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
— Corrie Ten Boom