Quotes about Inspiration

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.

When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.

Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts." —George Müller

SCRIVEN (1820—1886) wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson (1842—1906) wrote "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" after his fiancée rejected him because he was going blind.

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness." —D. A. Carson

Yes," Marcus said. "The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.