Quotes About Inspiration

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Poetry is something in-between the dream and its interpretation.

Should we not be moved rather than chilled by the knowledge that he might have attained his greatness only through his frailties?

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

When I'm rushing on my runAnd I feel just like Jesus's son

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

for most (lyric) of what I do, the idea behind it was to try and bring a novelist's eye to it, and, within the framework of rock and roll, to try to have the lyric there so somebody who enjoys being engaged on that level could have that and have the rock and roll too.

The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.

Rock & roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back your beat so you could dream...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not for music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?

I love women, I think they're great.

As Paul Hawken keenly observed, Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course.… We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead, the stars come out every night and we watch television.1

Think of it this way instead: I got better and I have a story and I want to tell the world what Jesus has done in my life because I want Jesus to be glorified. God may use counselors, medications, doctors, and all that, but it's Jesus who heals you.

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

What a way to walk through life: entering every environment with every intention to shine as little light as possible on me and as much light as possible on the Son of God.

You should never count God out. What He has planned and dreamed for your life far exceeds the circumstances of your day. He is always at work, painting on a canvas bigger than we can see or imagine. Not only is this true today; it's been true of our entire story to this point.

The race has already been won, God impressed on his heart. All I'm asking you to do is show up and let my light shine through you.

God is a dream-giving God. He's given you and me dreams.

On the contrary, knowing I AM inspires us to excel in every area of life. Further, the power of this "I am not" message is that when we compete, and hopefully win, we can avoid the pitfall of gaining the whole world and yet losing our souls.2 As

You are alive in the Spirit, alive by the Spirit, alive for Christ, alive in Christ, to live the life of Christ so that He might be glorified.

I want my life to defy human explanation.

Lord, I thank You for the treasure of the Bible. Please teach my heart to want to dive into its treasures every day.