Quotes about Inspiration

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

No psychology of religion can teach us what conversion is and ought to be; the Scriptures alone can tell us that.

Women are not a problem...they are an answer

Our hero status is not dependant on our human might or power or even our human spirit; it comes from the power of His spirit.

You know you are with true friends when they lift, encourage, correct, and then spur you on.

I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works. (Psalm 139:14, NKJV)

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

I think maybe the vehicle for me was 'Sam Cooke's Greatest Hits.' It has a song called, 'Touch the Hem of His Garment.' Do you know that song? I kind of got obsessed with that song and started exploring and getting more of his old recordings with the Soul Stirrers and really getting into that super, super deeply.

People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.