Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Outward failure may be a manifested variant of inward success.
Human improvement is from within outward.
While it's easy for South Sudan to feel distant, the situation is all too real for the South Sudanese mothers choosing which child gets to eat tomorrow. This is a time when we must look outward together and declare that humanity has no borders - no one deserves to suffer like this, especially in a world of such abundance.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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.
Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for which we seek. And if with all our hearts we truly seek to know the Savior and to be more like Him, we shall be, for He is our divine, eternal Brother.
Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.
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.
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.
Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
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've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.
The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.
Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outward appearances, we're assessed next on our names.
However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.
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.
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.
I don't put a very clear label on my work. If anything, I write science fiction - looking at a moment now, in the present, and then extrapolating outward to think about what the future might look like if this particular trend goes on, or if this particular trend is the most dominant. That's a science fictional tool.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the cake. But 19th century nobility and the enlightened thinkers and stoics before them viewed manners in a very different way. To them, manners are an outward expression of an inward struggle.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference.
We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.
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.
A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.
Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.
In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely vegetate - in all such creatures, the currents of the desire body flow outward from the liver.
