Quotes about Inspiration

ministry can be fruitful only if it grows out of a direct and intimate encounter with our Lord.

The great mystery is not the cures, but the infinite compassion which is their source.

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit" (John 3:8 NRSV). To be born of the Spirit is to step into a freedom that we never imagined before. It is to trust that the Spirit

I looked at the splendid drawings and paintings Rembrandt created in the midst of all his setbacks, disillusionment and grief. One must have died many deaths and cried many tears to have painted a portrait of God in such humility.

Whatever happens to me in life, I must believe that somewhere, In the mess or madness of it all, There is a sacred potential—

Divine guidance can be found in the books we read, the nature we enjoy, the people we meet, and the events we experience.

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.

Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.