Inward Quotes - Page 4

The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

An inward sincerity will of course influence the outward deportment; but where the one is wanting, there is great reason to suspect the absence of the other.

Words . . . present a picture of the inward man.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

Faith is an outward look, not an inward look.

True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

If faith is the gaze of the heart at God, and if this gaze is but the raising of the inward eyes to meet the all-seeing eyes of God, then it follows that it is one of the easiest things possible to do.

The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.

Happiness is less regulated by external circumstances than inward enjoyment. Whoever is happy in the satisfaction of himself feels imperturbable felicity; but he, who trusts entirely to the world for the disposition of his peace, must inevitably participate [in] many privations and disappointments.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

The psyche is the inward experience of the human body, which is essentially the same in all human beings, with the same organs, the same instincts, the same impulses, the same conflicts, the same fears. Out of this common ground have come what Jung has called the archetypes, which are the common ideas of myths.

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.

Why in the case of the ear, is there withdrawal and turning inward, a making resonant, but in the case of the eye, there is manifestation and display, a making evident?

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

That which is destroying the Church is not the outward groping of those within it nor the inward groping of those without, but the professionals who control it and who have removed the bells from its steeples.

For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation. It is an inward seeing, an inner knowing.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other.