Quotes and Sayings About Inward
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Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.
-- African Spir -
The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.
-- African Spir -
Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.
-- Aimee Liu -
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as easy and clear for you to remain in contemplation in your inward and recollected state, as to live in the natural state.
-- Albertus Magnus -
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
-- Alfred Edersheim -
The ghost is the outward and visible signs of an inward fear.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.
-- Andy Sawford -
Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
-- Arthur Ashe -
As breath stills our mind, our energies are free to unhook from the senses and bend inward.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
It takes courage and intelligence, you know, to do the stages of Yoga right, and to start with this Hatha Yoga… It’s just you and nothing but you, standing in one spot frozen like a statue with no place to go for help or excuse or scapegoat except inward.
-- Bikram Choudhury -
Wear modest, clean clothing. Your clothing doesn't need to be new and [it] should have some fashion of course, but [it] should be clean, modest, and neat. Be dignified in your outward manner and in your inward morality.
-- Bruce R. McConkie -
There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.
-- Charles Hodge -
A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self...
-- Chris Brown -
You see, religion alone can only take a person so far. Religion can make us nice, but only Christ can make us new. Religion focuses on outward behavior. Relationship is an inward transformation. Religion focuses on what I do, while relationship centers on what Jesus did. Religion is about me. Relationship is about Jesus
-- Craig Groeschel -
The longest journey is the journey inward.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
-- David Brooks -
When your institution is under threat, you feel you have a lot of hostility, you feel things are slipping away, you have got internal problems, there's a tendency to turn inward and to focus on yourselves.
-- David Brooks -
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
-- David Platt -
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food
-- Deepak Chopra -
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.
-- Djuna Barnes -
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.
-- Dustin Moskovitz -
Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.
-- Epictetus -
Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.
-- Etty Hillesum -
Anger can be borne - it can even be satisfying - if it can gather into words and explode in a storm, or a rapier-sharp attack. But without these means of ventilation, it only turns back inward, building and swirling like a head of stream - building to an impotent, murderous rage.
-- Eva Hoffman -
When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.
-- F.B. Meyer -
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.
-- Francis Spufford -
In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized.
-- Gangaji
