Outward Signs Quotes

Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.

[Jesus] said that they will know we are Christians - not by our bumper stickers and T-shirts - but by our love.

A habit does not a monk make.

The truth has no need to be uttered to be made apparent, and ... one may perhaps gather it with more certainty, without waiting for words and without even taking any account of them, from countless outward signs, even from certain invisible phenomena, analogous in the sphere of human character to what atmospheric changes are in the physical world.

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

Problems are the outward signs of unused inner possibilities.

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher. -Video barbam et pallium; philosophum nondum video

For business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to acquire the exterior mark, without once thinking to labor after the interior grace.

Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.

The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.