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Quotes About Inspiration

A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.
~ J. G. Holland
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
~ Thomas Carlyle
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
~ James Russell Lowell
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.
~ George Harrison
Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.
~ Cyril Cusack
Sacred spirit of love, fall down on me from above.
~ Bootsy Collins
Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try.
~ John Lennon
My religion lies in my composition.
~ John Philip Sousa
Cinema to me is like a religion. If I was going to have a religion it would be cinema.
~ Ron Perlman
Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.
~ Anagarika Govinda
I adhere to the religion of art and music and small children.
~ Rosanne Cash
Impression minus expression leads to spiritual depression.
~ Joseph C. Aldrich
Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
~ Max Lucado
Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another.
~ Benjamin Franklin
I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.
~ Brendon Urie
The Christian religion is hopeless without the Holy Ghost.
~ Samuel Chadwick
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
~ Geoffrey Wood
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
~ Alfred Edersheim
The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.
~ Kristin Hersh
The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
~ George Carlin
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
~ Richard Cecil
The source of nature is spirit.
~ Larry Gates
It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it!
~ Thomas A. Edison
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge