Quotes about Inspiration
My faith tells me where to go and get started and what kind of sympathy to have for people once you get there.
— Conor Lamb
Of course, being the synagogue president, for me it was a great blessing.
— Jacky Rosen
We do not first acquire the faith that we bring to Scripture. Scripture encourages faith. "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God" (Romans 10:17).
— Reinhard Bonnke
Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
— Richard Baxter
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
— Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
— Richard Baxter
Esteem the church fathers and other writers, but value none of them as equivalent to the word of God.
— Richard Baxter
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
— Richard Blackaby
word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;
— Richard Blackaby
As Desmond Tutu told me on a recent trip to Cape Town, "We are only the light bulbs, Richard, and our job is just to remain screwed in!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.
— Fr. Richard Rohr