Quotes about Inward
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
— Watchman Nee
Faith is God's work within us.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
— John Milton
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.
— CS Lewis
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
— Charles Dickens
I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all
— Charles Dickens
[Silence] is when we hear inwardly, sound when we hear outwardly.
— Henry David Thoreau
In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
— Oscar Wilde
What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.
— Oscar Wilde
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
— DH Lawrence