Quotes about Inspiration

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;

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!

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.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882), the great American essayist, said "nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm." What a deconstructed culture lacks, because of its deep cynicism and pessimism about reality, is a basic confidence and enthusiasm that is necessary to start almost anything.

The Holy Spirit is God desiring in you and through you—until it becomes your desiring too.

we have faith in Christ so we can have the faith of Christ.

All that a spiritual teacher really does is "second the motions" of the Holy Spirit.

All who hold any kind of unexplainable hope believe in resurrection, whether they are formal Christians or not, and even if they don't believe Jesus was physically raised from the dead.

Have you ever noticed that the expression "the light of the world" is used to describe the Christ (John 8:12), but that Jesus also applies the same phrase to us? (Matthew 5:14, "You are the light of the world.")

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.