Inward Quotes

Never be hurried in anything. Do all things calmly and in a spirit of repose. Do not lose your inward peace even if everything seems to be going wrong. What is anything in life compared to peace of soul?

When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.

A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.

Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.

It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.

Depression is anger turned inward.

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].

We are the strongest filter we can place before the lens. We point the lens both outward and inward.

The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

The more basic the color, the more inward, the more pure.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

Take a few moments every day to sit in silence and turn your full awareness inward to connect with your Spirit. These moments of silence can occur anytime and anyplace. The more you learn to tune in wherever you are, the easier it will become.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.

The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.

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.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

Surrender yourselves then to be led and disposed of just as God pleases, with respect both to your outward and inward state.

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

The journey of true success and lasting leaderships begins with the inward journey to the soul.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear.

All satanic works are performed from the outside inward; all divine works from the inside outward.

When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

They have to sort out their problems and the best way for us is to trade with the world don't be this inward looking bloc and above all you take back control over all the decision you have made .we are one in 28 with another 5 countries joining ..we will become increasing insignificant so lets take back control.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.

In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole.

There are two kinds of authors - subjective and objective. Introverts are more inward looking.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.

...what I dread more than anything else in this life is noise...silence helps you to go inward..anyone who is interested in something more than just life outside actually needs silence.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Core competence, as it is used by many managers, is a dangerously inward-looking notion. Competitiveness is far more about doing what customers value than doing what you think you're good at.

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.