Quotes about Inspiration

In Scripture we see example after example of God coming alongside people who felt weak and inadequate—who felt the absence of the strength needed for the assignment they'd been given—and calling them to be strong. In fact, there are more than thirty occasions in the Bible where God commands someone to be strong.

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry - architecture being the least banal derivative of the latter.

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.

It seems so to me, said his wife, as if she were producing a new thought.

He hasn't written a line for twenty years. A line of what? What kind of literature can one keep corked up for twenty years? Wade surprised him. The real kind, I should say.

One thing I do know is that my helpers were qualified by the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.