Quotes About Inspiration

Practical teaching that moves people to action is one of the primary things God uses to grow our faith.

In this way, courage establishes leadership.

God will always nudge us in the direction of kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control.16 When in doubt, max those out.

What is the one thing I want my audience to know? •   What do I want them to do about it?

This goes right to the heart of leadership. Leaders instill courage in the hearts of those who follow. This rarely happens through words alone. It generally requires action. It goes back to what we said earlier: Somebody has to go first. By going first, the leader furnishes confidence to those who follow. In this way, leaders give permission.

La manera en que tú hables acerca de la Biblia en el fin de semana es la que determinará el interés que sientan por ella durante la semana siguiente. Tienes que hacerla accesible. Tienes que darles permiso para leerla antes que la crean.

The courage to dream always precedes the capital needed to finance the dream.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

Preaching for life change requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration. Less first century and more twenty-first century.

If God has birthed a vision in you, he is in the process of developing a similar vision in the hearts of others around you.

VISIONEERING = INSPIRATION + CONVICTION + ACTION + DETERMINATION + COMPLETION

The most significant visions are not cast by great orators from a stage. They are cast at the bedsides of our children. The greatest visioncasting opportunities happen between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 PM Monday through Sunday. In these closing hours of the day we have a unique opportunity to plant the seeds of what could be and what should be. Take every opportunity you get.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.

at least once in my life make something that would go around the world, create a lick that guitarists everywhere would play, be number one in America, be heard at weddings, bar mitzvahs, births, funerals, be adapted into the repertoire of brass bands in the north of England, and make my mum and dad proud.

My instinct about painting says, "If you don't think about it, it's right."

I'd asked around 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question, 'Well, what do you love most?' That's how I started painting money.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he — for some reason — thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

The great Powers of the world today as they look at the armaments they have built up, find themselves hopelessly frustrated. If that be the case, what is the use of speaking about first-class, second-class and third-class Powers? That is surely the wrong language to use. It does not comply with contemporary reality. What we have to seek is new ways of being great, new modes of pioneering, new fashions of thought, new means of inspiring and igniting the minds of mankind. We can do so.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

I'm actually living my life with the material I choose to work with.