Quotes about Inspiration

I thought that I would never reach for it again without remembering the old granny in front of me now, standing almost on tiptoe, squinting as she strained to see the words in the Bible her son held aloft.

The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.

Don't curse the darkness but light a candle.

through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.

That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time, the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the Providence and Power of GOD, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for GOD, that he could not tell whether it had increased in above forty years that he had lived since.

The most important discovery of my whole life is that one can take a little rough cabin and transform it into a palace just by flooding it with God.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

But I doubt not, that leathern tally, meant for man, was taken off in Heaven, when the white fowl flew to join the wing-folding, the invoking, and adoring cherubim!

To begin at the beginning is, next to ending at the end, the whole art of writing; as for the middle you may fill it in with any rubble that you choose.