Quotes about Inward
For America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without;
— Walt Whitman
They are trying to look within, to differentiate, to discriminate, to analyze, and in doing so are bringing themselves into deeper bondage. Now this is a situation which is really dangerous to Christian life, for inward knowledge will never be reached along the barren path of self-analysis.
— Watchman Nee
Peace starts within.
— Jane Goodall
For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for God.
— RC Sproul
It is much more important to cultivate the quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.
— Dallas Willard
What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ from a life that is one with his resurrected reality day by day, learning obedience through inward transformation.
— Dallas Willard
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The most valuable real estate in the universe is inside your soul.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Keep in mind that it is not enough that we should just read the Word. The object is that the words that are printed on the page would become indelibly written on our hearts. God never intended that we should merely get onto His Word-His intent is that the Word should get into us.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The old myth traveled upward and outward; the new travels downward and inward.
— Thomas Howard
But if we love ourselves in the wrong way, we become incapable of loving anybody else. And indeed when we love ourselves wrongly we hate ourselves; if we hate ourselves we cannot help hating others.
— Thomas Merton
How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success.
— Charles Swindoll