Quotes about Inspiration

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

Even in darkness, light dawns for the upright.' That is you now. Let your light shine here in Rock Harbor.

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

The Bible is authoritative on everything of which it speaks. Moreover, it speaks of everything.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.

And yet, old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.

It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?

You are not called to convince anyone. You are simply called to be an open channel for the Spirit of God to flow through.

Three years after Mama's death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.

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