Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.
I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
Knowing that a story needs to be told is a great motivator, even if telling a given story comes at a price. Writing Hunger has been the most difficult writing of my life, and it's the rawest and perhaps most necessary. We'll see how people take it. I always strive to write beyond personal catharsis because though I write first and foremost for myself, I do recognize that I need to look outward as much if not more than I look inward, so the reader has something with which they can engage.
Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.
Let there be no disappointment when obedience keeps you busy in outward tasks. If it sends you to the kitchen, remember that the Lord walks among the pots and pans.
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.
True goodness is an inward grace, not an outward necessity.
The door to happiness opens outward.
Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.
There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the truth is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.
The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.
Live within; be not shaken by outward happenings.
Depression is not 'anger turned inward'; if anything, anger is depression turned outward. Follow the trail of anger inward, and there you will find the small, still voice of pain.
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.