Quotes about Inner

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.'

The absence of an inner conflict is one of life's richest blessings," the pastor also had said. "And it comes only from the hand of God.

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

Of course I want to look nice and have a good appearance, but more than the outer shell, I want people to want to be around me for my heart.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

The problem with Luther's account of the Christian faith and of theology is that he distinguishes too sharply between the "inner person" and the "outer person

Remember that your real wealth can be measured not by what you have, but by what you are.

The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within; the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.

You may bring about that improved condition in your outward life which you desire, if you will unswervingly resolve to improve your inner life.

But the word faith is better translated as "confidence" and "trust," because it is about something inside you and not directed toward something external.

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his right mind. p. 31