Outward Quotes

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

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

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

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.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

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.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

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.

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.

The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great.

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.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

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

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

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.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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.

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.

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?

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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