Quotes about Inspiration

Transcending "Revelation" All this alerts us to the fact that scripture is more than simply

Jesus is often seen as someone who can "teach" you to play the piano, so that you can perform Mozart and Beethoven. But Jesus was more like someone who had just invented an entirely new musical instrument, had written some stunning music for it, and was now "teaching" people to play the new music on the new instrument. Jesus was announcing that a whole new world was being born and he was "teaching" people how to live within that whole new world.

The beauty of creation, to which art responds and which it tries to express, imitate, and highlight, is not simply the beauty it possesses in itself but the beauty it possesses in view of what is promised to

Frequently, I will read one or two selections from a devotional book as a means of tuning my heart before I open the Scripture. These books, written by human authors, should never take the place of the Word of God itself, but they can help us focus on spiritual matters and clear out any clutter that may be distracting to us.

The older we get, the bigger the catalog of failures Satan can throw in our faces. You may think, 'I don't have anything to offer.' But you can teach out of your failures as well as your successes (p. 223).

Stories and images can be powerful means for conveying ideas. Every time we read a book or watch a movie, we enter into an imaginative

The whole creation of God preaches

To be human is to write, to compose, to create, and to dream. So is to think, to test, and to know why.

Christianity was permitted to tell Sunday school stories as object lessons to inspire morality, but it was not allowed to claim that those stories were true.

In every age, the gospel fulfills people's most profound aspirations.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.