Quotes about Inspiration

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I'm going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.

Nothing made by the hand of man has ever been so beautiful as starlight on the water or moonlight on the snow. And the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.

We shouldn't think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is.

I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world.

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Ruth once wrote, "Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .'More people fail for lack of encouragement,' someone wrote, 'than for any other reason.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.

People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.