Quotes About Inward

The degree of freedom we enjoy outwardly is a reflection of the degree of love we cultivate inwardly.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

O England! model to thy inward greatness,Like little body with a mighty heart,What mightst thou do, that honor would thee do,Were all thy children kind and natural!

A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.

Men's judgments areA parcel of their fortunes, and things outwardDo draw the inward quality after them,To suffer all alike.

Some are obviously living in bondage. Others give the appearance that they have overcome such problems. But the fact remains that even if it is not apparent in a person's outward behavior, this is the true state of all our hearts.

His high endeavors are an inward light That makes the path before him always bright.

The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath wrought upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought: whose high endeavors are an inward light that makes the path before him always bright.

The man whose eye Is ever on himself doth look on one, The least of Nature's works, one who might move The wise man to that scorn which wisdom holds Unlawful, ever. O, be wiser, Thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love; True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In loneliness of heart.

Regeneration took place in our spirit, not in our physical body or in our mind. This means the Triune God is now in our spirit (Eph. 4:6; 2 Cor. 13:5; Rom. 8:9). What a treasure we have within (2 Cor. 4:7)! The Triune God has come into our spirit to stay (John 4:24; 2 Tim. 4:22; Rom. 8:16). Here in our spirit is where the unsearchable riches of Christ are.

Actually, the Father as our object is within us, because the object is embodied in the Son and the Son is realized as the Spirit who indwells us. If we have the Spirit, we have the Son, and if we have the Son, we have the Father. Thus, the three of the Divine Trinity are in us.

Through a process of outward decay, an inward process is taking place that is adding a new constituent to our

Inner qualities, not outer appearances.

Also, I used to think that one day I might get someone to iron my shirts, but the truth is I really like doing them myself.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Be taught now, among the trees and rocks, how the discarded is woven into shelter, learn the way things hidden and unspoken slowly proclaim their voice in the world. Find that far inward symmetry to all outward appearances, apprentice yourself to yourself, begin to welcome back all you sent away, be a new annunciation, make yourself a door through which to be hospitable, even to the stranger in you.

A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers.

Know what you desire, but, more importantly, why you desire it. That why was where the trick lay, I realized. Why was a land of trapdoors and hidden places, trees and rocks that looked like one thing, but were actually another.

Start from your heart. The greatest journeys begin on the inside.

Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.

Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.

All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.