Outward Quotes

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

As no outward motion or change, when normal, in man's external body can take place unless provoked by an inward impulse, given through one of the three functions named, so with the external or manifested Universe.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

It's how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.