Quotes about Inspiration

Swedenborg, the Christian mystic, and the sentiment of charity as divine spoke deeply to him. He felt swept up in something far bigger than himself.

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children, and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Now I understand that all great teachers love us. This is essentially what makes them great. I also understand that it is this love that never dies, and that, having once experienced it, we have the confidence always exhibited by well-loved humans, to continue extending this same love.

Heaven. Now there's a thought. Nothing has ever been able, ultimately, to convince me we live anywhere else. And that heaven, more a verb than a noun, more a condition than a place, is about leading with the heart in whatever broken or ragged state it's in, stumbling forward in faith until, from time to time, we miraculously find our way.

Because you are who you are, the future look happy and bright.

I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

To me, we're marketing hope.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.