Quotes about Inspiration
The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.
— Thomas Monson
A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.
— Melody Carlson
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
— John Bunyan
When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.
— Joel Osteen
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