Quotes About Inspiration

I remember what Ben Jonson said: 'I've studied all the philosophies and all the theologies but cheerfulness keeps breaking through.

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

S]ongs must be measured by their utility. Any jaunty little tune that can get you from one point to another as you drive, or get you through the dishes, or that can illuminate or dignify your courting, I always appreciate. -interview, 1995

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

If I knew where the good songs were, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.

Behold the gates of mercy in arbitrary space.

Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

leadership is the medium through which one expresses one's deepest values.

The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

I'm only human, and I have no doubt Spock will outlive me by many years. I can only hope that, once in a while, when people look at Spock's visage, they might sometimes think of me.

The artist is the closest man comes to being God.

Some Day Someone is going to pick up this book (The Bible) and believe it, and put us all to shame.

A vision without a task makes a visionary; a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision with a task makes a missionary.

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

If Christ waited to be anointed before He went to preach, no young man ought to preach until he, too, has been anointed by the Holy Ghost. —F. B. MEYER

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied,

He who would teach the people to pray must first himself be given to prayer.

To make my weak heart strong and brave, Send the fire. To live a dying world to save, send the fire. Oh, see me on Thy altar lay My life, my all, this very day; To crown the offering now, I pray: Send the fire! —F. de L. Booth-Tucker

Paul's was an exemplary life.

Inspiration is as mysterious as life, for both are God-given. Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.

To become a better parent, you must become a better person.