Outward Quotes

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.
Beatrix Potter

Religion, Good, Great

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

Life, True, Christian

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Process, Inner, Stands

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Thomas a Kempis

Himself, Distracted, Draws

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

Beauty, Gift, Except

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.
Arthur Erickson

History, Sense, Command

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.
Martha Beck

Spiritual, True, Jesus

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.
Paracelsus

Time, Real, Away

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul

Good, Heart, Lost

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.
George Berkeley

Alone, Fight, May

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

Brain, Show, Vain

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.
Laurence Olivier

Great, Small, Culture

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.
Jose Saramago

Government, Live, Reality

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.
Elias Hicks

True, Jesus, Miracles

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

Life, Art, Fact

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

Good, Religious, Meditation

Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Kenneth L. Pike

Success, Failure, May

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Kenneth L. Pike

Courage, Results, Continue

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
Walter Pater

Poetry, Important, Sense

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.
Ellsworth Huntington

Home, Human, General

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.
William Kingdon Clifford

Great, True, May

Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude

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.
William Ames

Special, Sometimes, Here

My dad instilled in me a great sense of humor. I wasn't bullied at school because my outward attitude was confident, and that helps.
Warwick Davis

Humor, Great, Attitude

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

Deep, Often, Fault

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

Life, Free, Miracle

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.
Dwight Schultz

Moving, Big, Another

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.
H. P. Blavatsky

Change, Through, Place

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?
Hilary Swank

Beauty, Hair, Body

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

Career, Full, Longer

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