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"To see the dull indifference, the negligent and thoughtless air that sits upon the faces of a whole assembly, while the psalm is upon their lips, might even tempt a charitable observer to suspect the fervency of their inward religion."
"It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really."
"A man who says, 'I want to change, tell me how to', seems very earnest, very serious, but he is not. He wants an authority whom he hopes will bring about order in himself. But can authority ever bring about inward order? Order imposed from without must always breed disorder."
"Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?"
"Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known."
"To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling."
"The person who looks outward dreams, the person who looks inward awakens."
"By connecting with the present we turn our attention inward, away from all the chaos and activity, and experience our eternal, unbounded nature."
"Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes."
"A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result."
"Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man."
"I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand."
"O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart."
"When I speak of religion I mean a constant inward sense of communion with God."
"Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life."
"The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward."
"The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time."
"Your tendency to be inward-directed or outward-directed is huge; it governs every part of the way you live and work and love."
"Without prayer there is no inward peace."
"A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still."
