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Quotes About Inspiration

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans, Là-Bas
Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.
~ Kimberly Hahn
The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.
~ Herbert Lockyer
I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
~ Rumi
Poetry and prayer are very similar.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.
~ Jean Houston
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
~ Aleister Crowley
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
~ Bear Grylls
Poetry to me is prayer.
~ Anne Sexton
Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.
~ Pablo Neruda
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
~ Pope John Paul II
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
~ John Masefield
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.
~ Franz Schubert
When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.
~ Silouan the Athonite
The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.
~ Emmet Gowin
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.
~ Gary Busey
Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.
~ John Quincy Adams
Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.
~ Stephen Baldwin
I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.
~ Susan Rothenberg
Christ never preached any funeral sermons.
~ Dwight L. Moody
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
~ Hortense Calisher
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
~ Elie Wiesel