Quotes about Inspiration

but to create Is greater than created to destroy.

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days...

Think greatly of the greatness of God.

Our unction, therefore, is the communication of the Holy Spirit, and nothing else.

A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul.

Among those who walk with God, there is no greater motive and incentive unto universal holiness, and the preserving of their hearts and spirits in all purity and cleanness, than this, that the blessed Spirit, who hath undertaken to dwell in them, is continually considering what they give entertainment in their hearts unto, and rejoiceth when his temple is kept undefiled.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

I write music every day.

Don't wish upon a star, reach for one.

Still, he never felt that the sermons he wrote at the cottage were good. By the time he got back to Washington to preach them, they no longer excited him. They seemed cold, lifeless. This was probably because Peter's best sermons rose out of the soil of emotion in his own heart. That emotion had to be a present, valid reality. He could not conjure it up.

We don't have to accept blandness in life. God, who is the author of creativity, is ready to make a dull life adventuresome the moment we allow his Holy Spirit to go to work inside us.