Quotes about Inspiration

Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true.

To find our calling is to find the intersection between our own deep gladness and the world's deep hunger.

What he most dreaded, that I most desired. What he most loved, that I most hated. That which to him was a great evil, to be carefully shunned, was to me a great good, to be diligently sought; and the argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn.

They were great in their day and generation.

Men talk much of a new birth. The fact is fundamental. But the mistake is in treating it as an incident which can only happen to a man once in a lifetime: whereas the whole journey of life is a succession of them. A new life springs up in the soul with the discovery of every new agency by which the soul is raised to a higher level of wisdom: goodness and joy.

From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace; and in the darkest hours of my career in slavery, this living word of faith and spirit of hope departed not from me, but remained like ministering angels to cheer me through the gloom. This good spirit was from God, and to him I offer thanksgiving and praise.

The world is full of poetry; it is sin which turns it into prose.

Be as generous as possible" is idle talk, if the generosity of the pastor has not preceded the generosity of his flock.

God accepts only what His Spirit inspires. We must bring back to God what He has given.

This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it! - Eleanor Roosevelt Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil.- -John Ruskin Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

God spoke to the Gentiles through nature and philosophers; to the Jews, through prophecies.

As a mother cannot forget the child of her womb, so a speaker cannot forget the child of his brain.