Outward Quotes

And yet you see the weakness of external evidence-and outward miracles; they were not sufficient to make true believers, or to make the Israelites believe that Jesus was their promised Messiah.

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?

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

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

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, this it overflows upon the outward world.

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

They've discovered that, where all the other galaxies are moving in one direction, ours is going in another. Now, the Big Bang theory says that we're all moving outward.

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

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

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

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.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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.

Human improvement is from within outward.

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.

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