#outward

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

— Johannes Tauler

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Aristotle

#aim #appearance #inward #outward #outward appearance

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

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

— Margaret Fuller

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We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God cometh not with outward observation; and for this reason, that it was only to be known in man. ↗

— Elias Hicks

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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self. ↗

— Mainbocher

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Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. ↗

— Theodore Parker

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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

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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

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