Quotes About Inspiration

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

The Holy Scripture is like a diamond: in the dark it is like a piece of glass, but as soon as the light strikes it the water begins to sparkle, and the scintillation of life greets us.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all men are created free and equal.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr

Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.

If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.

Why must I do what is hardest?" "Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Because Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?... Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored.

He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.

Be ready. Be seated. See what courage sounds like. See how brave it is to reveal yourself in this way. But above all, see what it is to still live, to profoundly influence the lives of others after you are gone, by your words.

His art, so he tells himself, is to give voice to the ordinary, in memorable ways.

Make your life something beautiful for God.

Out of his pen he was spinning gold.

Without Genet as a witness, nothing I did was meaningful.