Quotes about Inspiration

Each of us was conceived by destiny, produced by purpose and packaged with potential to live a meaningful, fulfilling life. Deep within you lies a seed of greatness waiting to be germinated... be provoked to unbridle the silent wealth of power that is screaming for exposure.

We could sum up thre entire message of this book in the following way; leaders stand for something - vision. Leaders stand on something - values.

Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life—for a day; tell someone a story and you change their life.

Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

If the Bible is not simply "revelation," neither is it simply a devotional aid, even the primary devotional aid.

All this means that we are called to be people who learn to hear God's voice speaking today within the ancient text, and who become vessels of that living word in the world around us.

What we hope for includes the wise human leadership and initiative which will, like that of Joseph in Egypt, bring about fresh and healing policies and actions

when people cease to be surrounded by beauty, they cease to hope.

The Psalms are not only poetry in themselves; they are to be the cause of poetry in those who sing them, together and individually. They are God's gifts to us so that we can be shaped as his gift to the world.

Sing these songs, and they will renew you from head to toe, from heart to mind. Pray these poems, and they will sustain you on the long, hard but exhilarating road of Christian discipleship.