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Quotes About Inspiration

Music is my religion.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Music is my higher power
~ Oliver James
If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.
~ Frances E. Willard
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
~ Henry Miller
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
With the power of soul, anything is possible.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.
~ Robert Schumann
True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
~ Lou Reed
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.
~ Marie Corelli
For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in.
~ George Steiner
One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.
~ Nick Hornby
The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
~ James Freeman Clarke
What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.
~ John Steinbeck
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
~ Reginald Horace Blyth
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.
~ Jimi Hendrix
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.
~ Billy Graham
I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.
~ Zach Anner
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Workers need poetry more than bread. They need that their life should be a poem. They need some light from eternity. Religion alone can be the source of such poetry.
~ Simone Weil
The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has stood so much bad preaching.
~ Archibald Thomas Robertson
What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
~ C.S. Lewis