Inward Quotes - Page 26

• Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

  Norm MacDonald

  Hypocrisy, Shame, Acknowledgment

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• You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

  John Henry Newman

  Religious, Eye, Waiting

  John Henry Newman, Francis J. McGrath, FMS, Gerard Tracey (2006). “The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman Volume IX: Littlemore and the Parting of Friends May 1842-October 1843”, p.274, Oxford University Press

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• In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.

  Gangaji

  Silence, Usual, Attention

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• As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children, Believe, People

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• Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

  Alfred Edersheim

  Let Me

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• I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain. I do not think about it. Yoga has taught me to think of only working to live a useful life...I will never stop learning, and it have tried to share some lessons with you. I do pray that my ending will be your beginning. The great rewards and the countless blessings of a life spent following the Inward Journey await you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Thinking, Blessing

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• Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Thinking, Animal

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). “Lectures Upon Shakspeare”, p.145, Classic Books Company

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• There is an inward state of the heart which makes truth credible the moment it is stated. It is credible to some men because of what they are. Love is credible to a loving heart; purity is credible to a pure mind; life is credible to a spirit in which life beats strongly it is incredible to other men.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Truth, Heart, Love Is

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.424

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• It was necessary for the Son to disappear as an outward authority, in order that He might reappear as an inward principle of life. Our salvation is no longer God manifested in a Christ without us, but as a " Christ within us, the hope of glory.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Son, Order, Principles

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”

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• Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion.

  George MacDonald

  Spiritual, Truth, Soul

  George MacDonald (2015). “THOMAS WINGFOLD, CURATE + PAUL FABER, SURGEON + THERE AND BACK - The Complete Series: The Curate's Awakening, The Lady's Confession & The Baron's Apprenticeship”, p.676, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Thucydides

  Men, Design, Venture

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• If happiness is a state of the inward life, we have to look for its chief obstructions not in outward conditions but in deeper places. Happiness depends in the last issue, as we saw, on the essential view of life. It is not a matter of distractions, nor even of mere pleasurable sensations. There may be an appearance of great prosperity with incurable sadness hidden at the heart, as there is an outward peace which is only a well-masked despair. The way to happiness is indeed harder than the way to success; for its chief enemies entrench themselves within the soul.

  Hugh Black

  Happiness, Heart, Sadness

  Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”

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• Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of solace roam But with an independent zeal Be intimate at home.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Independent, Home, Self

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1860). “Gleanings”, p.208

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• Excellence, to me, is the state of grace that can descend only when one tunes out all the world's clamor, listens to an inward voice one recognizes as wiser than one's own, and transcribes without fear.

  Naomi Wolf

  Voice, Grace, Excellence

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• A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

  Chris Brown

  Men, Self, Attire

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• Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

  Henri Barbusse

  Men, Divinity, Guidance

  "Under Fire". Book by Henri Barbusse, 1916.

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• Now shall my inward joys arise,
  And burst into a song;
  Almighty love inspires my heart,
  And pleasure tunes my tongue.

  Isaac Watts

  Song, Heart, Joy

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.111

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• Outward as well as inward morality helps to form the idea of a true Christian freedom. We are right to lay stress on inwardness, but in this world there is no inwardness without an outward expression.

  Meister Eckhart

  Christian, Stress, Ideas

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• The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!

  Sigmund Freud

  Eye, News, Firsts

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1971). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• 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.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Eye, Seeing

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• I do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Country, Travel

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin

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• In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Heart, Winter, Doors

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• The use of natural history is to give us aid in supernatural history: the use of the outer creation, to give us language for the beings and changes of the inward creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Change, Nature, History

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Greatness, Body

  'Henry V' (1599) act 2, chorus, l. 16

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• Through dreams a door is opened to mythology, since myths are of the nature of dreams, and that, as dreams arise from an inward world unknown to waking consciousness, so do myths: so, indeed, does life.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Doors, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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