Quotes About Inspiration

I've felt real pain, and sometimes I channel the exhale coming out of that to write, and those are the songs that give me the most power and the most strength.

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

I feel blessed to be a musician, and I know it's a power given to me from God that I must use in a very positive way.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.