Inward Quotes - Page 7

Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There's constant pressure, pushing towards pattern. A tendency in matter to evolve into ever more complex forms. It's a kind of pattern gravity, a holy greening power we call 'Viriditas' and it is the driving force in the cosmos. Life, you see.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter With my friends, I was still an extrovert.

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder.

Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.

To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand.

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love.

The motives to actions and the inward turns of mind seem in our opinion more necessary to be known than the actions themselves; and much rather would we choose that our reader should clearly understand what our principal actors think than what they do.

Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator.

The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.

Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life.

If you are aware, you speak with awareness. But the awareness comes from the inward being. It flows from the inner being towards others.