Quotes about Inspiration

I want my prayers, and the prayers of my friends, to ricochet off the rock faces of mountains, reverberate down the corridors of shopping malls, sound ocean deeps, water arid deserts, find a foothold in fetid swamps, encounter poets as they search for the accurate word, mingle their fragrance with wildflowers in Alpine Meadows, sing with the looms of Canadian lakes.

Jesus wasn't so much handing out information as reshaping our imaginations.

And my work is not to fix people. It is to lead people in the worship of God and to lead them in living a holy life.

The reality that was inside of Jesus got outside of him so the disciples could see it.

For if a pastor is not in touch with joy, it will be difficult to teach or preach convincingly that the news is good.

God uses language to create and command us.

But caveat lector: we do not read the Bible in order to reduce our lives to what is convenient to us or manageable by us - we want to get in on the great invisibles of the Trinity, the soaring adorations of the angels, the quirky cragginess of the prophets, and ... Jesus.

Preaching reveals God in action here and now -- for ME.

Parables release the adrenaline of urgency into our bloodstream.

The Bible is basically and overall a narrative - an immense, sprawling, capacious narrative.

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?