Outward Quotes

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.

Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.

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.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

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.