Quotes about Inward

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

Freedom is from within.

Meditation means to let the word descend from our minds into our hearts and thus to become enfleshed.

I have scarcely heard of a truer sacrament, that is, as the dictionary defines it, outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, than this, and I have no doubt that they were originally inspired directly from Heaven to do thus, though they have no Biblical record of the revelation.

Attitude is your thought life turned inside out

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

One reason for this ability to cope with disaster is that nothing ever happens to us except what happens in our minds. Unhappiness is an inward, not an outward, thing. It is as independent of circumstances as is happiness. Consider the truly happy people you know. I think it is unlikely that you will find that circumstances have made them happy. They have made themselves happy in spite of circumstances.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

I have a profound belief in the power of the Sacraments. I believe that in a Divine way the use of them teaches the teachable their inward meaning and therefore I think we need be in no hurry to attempt to teach new converts all that we think we know about them.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance