Quotes about Inspiration
For verses and poems I can turn to true food.
— St. Augustine
What is that which gleams through me, and strikes my heart without hurting it; and I shudder and kindle? I shudder, inasmuch as I am unlike it; I kindle, inasmuch as I am like it.
— St. Augustine
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and very beautiful; but I never read in either of them, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
— St. Augustine
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
— St. Francis Of Assisi
My fondness for good books was my salvation.
— Teresa of Avila
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
— Teresa of Avila
God would never inspire me with desires which cannot be realized; so in spite of my littleness, I can hope to be a saint.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
A word or a smile is often enough to put fresh life in a despondent soul.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as is this truth of the Incarnation.
— JI Packer
Those who love the Gospel will love to be stirred by its truth all over again.
— Alistair Begg
Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
— Yolanda Adams
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
— CS Lewis