Inward Quotes

476 Inward quotes by 347 unique authors

Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout, Touched by light, with heavenly warning Your transporting chords ring out. Every leaf in… — John Keble
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor… — Henry Fielding
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — Joseph Campbell
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and… — Joseph Hall
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an… — Jacob Burckhardt
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face… — Dogen
O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you, And write by inward magic charm'd, And high enthusiasm warm'd? — Joanna Baillie
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the… — Matthew Arnold
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Conversion must mean more than just being a 'card-carrying' member of the church with a tithing receipt, a membership card, a temple recommend, etc. It… — Harold B. Lee
To understand a Bible text it takes an act of the Holy Spirit equal to the act that inspired the text in the first place.… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
For God to reveal His Son in us is not the result of research or searching; it is entirely a matter of mercy and revelation.… — Watchman Nee
Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic… — Phil Cousineau
Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come… — John Paul Caponigro
Damn everything but the circus! ...damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't… — E E Cummings
The only real failure is trying to second-guess the taste of an audience. Nothing comes out of that except a kind of inward humiliation. — David Bowie
O that our hearts were enlarged in love to God, that we might turn inward, to the blessed comforter, that the blessed Jesus said the… — Elias Hicks
Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people.… — Margaret Prescott Montague
I would say that introverts make some of the best international philosophers. The less common attribute of the introverted lifestyle - a close societal connection,… — Criss Jami
True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. — William Wordsworth
Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty — Rabindranath Tagore
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the… — John Greenleaf Whittier
I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if… — Stephen Hawking

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