Inward Quotes - Page 18

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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Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence.

e. e. cummings

Heart, Circles, Delight

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Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Rabindranath Tagore

Joy, Outward Beauty, Prove

Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Love”

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Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Light, Sea, Sound

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”, p.217

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Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Laughter, Angel, Hatred

John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.122

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I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.

Stephen Hawking

Thinking, Race, Space

"Q & A: Stephen Hawking and daughter Lucy". Today Interview, www.today.com. November 2, 2007.

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Some people say that music isn't something you are; it's something you do. It's having a constant desire to share and express. But I believe it's something you are. To me it's more inward.

Negash Ali

Believe, People, Desire

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

Walter Lippmann

Men, Thinking, Interesting

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It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.

George Eliot

Memories, Powerful, Passion

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Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

George Eliot

Believe, Men, Fabric

George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.451, Penguin

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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.

Kimbra

Heart, Trying, Moments

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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.

Deepak Chopra

Eye, Heart, Attention

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By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature.

Deepak Chopra

Attention, Chaos, Turns

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