Quotes about Inspiration

It is better to wake up five hundred Christians than to convert five hundred sinners, for if five hundred Christians really wake up, they will win more than five hundred sinners.

Nothing under the sun can be as dry and flat and tedious and exhausting as religious work without the wonder.

A Christian is not a depository of the truth; he's a dispenser of the truth.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)

What is grace? It is the inspiration from on high: it is love; it is liberty. Grace is the spirit of law. This discovery of the spirit of law belongs to Saint Paul; and what he calls "grace" from a heavenly point of view, we, from an earthly point, call "rigtheousness."

Beauty without expression tires.

Glance at the sun. See the moon and stars. Gaze at the beauty of the green earth. Now think.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.