Inward Quotes - Page 9

• We may restrict the expression of worship for a season, just as we may briefly hold our breath, but there is an inward craving for worship that cannot be permanently stilled

  Judson Cornwall

  Expression, May, Worship

  Judson Cornwall (1985). “Elements of Worship”, Bridge-Logos

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• It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room?

  Colman McCarthy

  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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• the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one’s own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one’s inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

  George Steiner

  Dream, Teacher, Adventure

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• When people are not sure about their future, when their economies are suffering, when their personal fortunes are flagging, we have often in this country turned to nativism and xenophobia and racism and anti-immigrant sensibilities and passions to express our sense of outrage at what we can't control - and to forge a kind of fitful solidarity that turns out to be rather insular - we look inward and not outward.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Country, Xenophobia, Passion

  "Michael Eric Dyson Wants White People to Step Up and Actually Do Something About Racism". Interview With Will Greenberg, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2017.

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• The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to Jesus Christ.

  Philip Graham Ryken

  Jesus, Fruits Of The Spirit, Uniting

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• Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

  Blaise Pascal

  Believe, Men, Pay

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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• God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized,
  it is already your true and natural state.
  Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward,
  and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being.
  For this to be your own presently lived experience,
  Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Sacrifice, Self

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• What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we take into ourselves help to shape us.

  Francis Spufford

  Book, Shapes, Helping

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• A conscious attempt to fall asleep is sure to produce insomnia, to try to be conscious of one's own digestion is a sure way to upset the stomach. Consciousness is a poison when we apply it to ourselves. Consciousness is a light directed outward. it's like the headlights on a locomotive—turn them inward and you'd have a crash.

  Boris Pasternak

  Fall, Insomnia, Light

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• The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?

  Baron d'Holbach

  Independent, Thinking, Desire

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• Inward spiritual practices such as meditation, breathing techniques and self-analysis generate insights and enhance abilities, but none are so useful as learning to live harmoniously in a committed relationship, being a skillful parent, or juggling the demands of daily life.

  Dan Millman

  Spiritual, Practice, Breathing

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  As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Wall, Bridges, Community

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.164, Vintage

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• 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.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Teeth, Answers, Impossible

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Take a Nicodemus and put a Joseph Smith's spirit in him, and what do you have? Take a Da Vinci or a Michelangelo or a Shakespeare and give him a total knowledge of the plan of salvation of God and personal revelation and cleanse him and take a look at the statues he will carve and the murals he will paint and the masterpieves he will produce. Take a handel with his purposeful effort, his superb talent, his earnest desire to properly depict the story, and give him inward vision of the whole true story and revelation, and what a master you will have!

  Brigham Young

  Giving, Effort, Vision

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• The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Memories, Heart

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

  Etty Hillesum

  Thinking, Turns, Ought

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.529, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Depression is anger turned inward.

  Sapphire

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• ...the more strictly and faithfully every man and woman lives up to the guidance and teaching of this Inward Anointing - and never turns aside to the right hand or left for the precepts and traditions of men - the more instruction and help they afford one another.

  Elias Hicks

  Teaching, Men, Hands

  Elias HICKS (1861). “Letters of E. Hicks, including also observations on the slavery of the Africans, etc”, p.46

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• The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.

  Gerald Morris

  Girl, Simple, Talking

  Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling.

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Eye, Smell

  William Shakespeare (1821). “Venus and Adonis. Rape of Lucrece. Sonnets. Lover's complaint. Passionate pilgrim. Memoirs of Lord Southhampton”, p.36

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• We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

  Tami Hoag

  Ideas, Choices, Decision

  Tami Hoag (2003). “Dust to Dust: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• Just as a flood-lighted temple is more beautiful in a severe storm or in a heavy fog, so the gospel of Jesus Christ is more glorious in times of inward storm and of personal sorrow and tormenting conflict.

  Harold B. Lee

  Beautiful, Jesus, Fog

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• I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Devil, Needs

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.46, Bantam

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