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Quotes About Inward

To know and feel all this and not have the words to express it makes a human a grave of his own thoughts.
~ John Donne
Second, we chose to believe Christ is already within us, and we remind ourselves of this marvel. The springs of life well up from within.
~ John Eldredge
Just because you can't express your feelings it doesn't mean they're not deep.
~ John Fowles
Just because you can't express your feelings it doesn't mean they're not deep
~ John Fowles
tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought
~ John Knowles
My crown is in my heart, not on my head.
~ William Shakespeare
Baptism is an outward expression of an inward faith.
~ Watchman Nee
Faith is God's work within us.
~ Saint Thomas Aquinas
Your soul must hold fast to Him, you must follow after Him in your thoughts, you must tread His ways by faith, not in outward show.
~ Ambrose
Happiness is born within ourselves and there's nothing external that is connected to it....
~ Unknown
Happiness comes from within, your's to have, your's to keep, your's to share.
~ Unknown
True happiness comes from within yourself...not from someone else. Don't make the mistake of waiting on someone or something to come along & make you happy.
~ Unknown
It is tearing me up on the inside to have these feelings for you, but I cant get rid of them.
~ Unknown
The most precious gifts are those that can't be touched by hands; but those that are being felt by the soul.
~ Unknown
Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
~ Unknown
A becoming in which one never becomes, a becoming whose rule is neither evolution nor asymptote but a certain turning, a certain turning inward, turning into my own / turning on in / to my own self / at last / turning out of the / white cage, turning out of the / lady cage / turning at last.
~ Maggie Nelson
Pregnancy is getting company inside one's skin.
~ Maggie Scarf
Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
As enlightenment increases, the desire to share it increases; but with this desire comes the realization that it is impossible to share the Real. Realization is an inward experience which can come only to those who have won it in their own right. It cannot be conferred.
~ Unknown
The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.
~ Manuel Rivas
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
~ John Milton
Farewel happy Fields   Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail   Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell   Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings   A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.   The mind is its own place, and in it self   Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
So the first consequence of Christ's withdrawing himself from us is that inward graces grow weak and we tend to rely more and more on outside helps. Above all, we lose the desire for holy meditation and we spend less and less time with Christ. Just as frost withers the plants in the garden, so the grace in our hearts also withers when the 'Sun of Righteousness' withdraws and hides himself.
~ John Owen