Inward Quotes - Page 17

• All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.

  Alexander Crummell

  Success, Spring, Real

  Alexander Crummell, John R. Oldfield, Southern Texts Society (1995). “Civilization and Black Progress: Selected Writings of Alexander Crummell on the South”, p.146, University of Virginia Press

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• When the inward is good the outward is also inevitably so, for the outward always follows the inward, whether good or evil.

  Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad

  Wisdom, Islamic, Evil

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• I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis.

  Philip Yancey

  Appreciation, Temptation, Challenges

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• Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  May, Tests, Fool

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.57

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Travel, Real, Eye

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• An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.

  Jon Krakauer

  Strong, Emotional, Land

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.182, Pan Macmillan

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• How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, White, Coward

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Love Is, Essence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Grace, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

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

  Thomas Hood

  Men, Religion, May

  Thomas Hood (1871). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood, ed. by W.M. Rossetti”, p.46

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• No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

  Arthur Koestler

  Unique, Men, Islands

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• Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in every nook, Every wave in every brook, Chanting with a solemn voice Minds us of our better choice.

  John Keble

  Morning, Voice, Light

  John Keble (1829). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble].”, p.52

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• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Artist, Action

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.190, New World Library

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• Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.

  Joseph Hall

  Adversity, Weather, Numbers

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• 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.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Society, Way, Ends

  Jacob Burckhardt (1964). “Force and Freedom: Reflections on History”, New York : Pantheon Books

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• Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

  Dogen

  Light, Self, Mind

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• O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd?

  Joanna Baillie

  Writing, Lovely, Magic

  Joanna Baillie (1853). “The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie”, p.782

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It means to overcome the tendencies to criticize and to strive continually to improve inward weaknesses and not merely the outward appearances.

  Harold B. Lee

  Mean, Church, Weakness

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• To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place. A revelation of the Holy Spirit in one glorious flash of inward illumination would teach you more of Jesus than five years in a theological seminary.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Illumination, Years

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• 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.

  Watchman Nee

  Son, Knowing, Research

  Watchman Nee (1971). “The Ministry of God's Word”, p.122, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down - back in time and down into the soul's depths.

  Phil Cousineau

  Creativity, Journey, Soul

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.18, Conari Press

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• Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Reality, Space, World

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