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

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

Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.

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.

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

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.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

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.

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.