Quotes About Inspiration

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through Music.

The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!

By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture.

It is not imitation that makes sons. It is sonship that make imitators.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

Meanwhile it is to be noted that the whole Scripture of God is divided into two parts: precepts and promises.

The Holy Spirit is no sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions - surer and more certain than sense and life itself.

God is the Poet, and we are the verses or songs He writes.

Holy Ghost goes first and before in what pertains to teaching; but in what concerns hearing, the Word goes first and before, and then the Holy Ghost follows after. For we must first hear the Word, and then afterwards the Holy Ghost 'works in our hearts; he works in the hearts of whom he will, and how he will, but never without the Word.

For this ought, above all things, to be received, and most firmly settled among Christians: - that the Holy Scriptures are a spiritual light by far more clear than the sun itself, especially in those things which pertain unto salvation or necessity.

For He has His strength in His mouth, not a sword in His hand.

our Lord God is an artist like unto none…

For the Spirit blows where He wills (John 3:8), not where we will.

No one can worthily speak or hear any Scripture, unless he is touched in conformity with it, so that he feels inwardly what he hears and says outwardly and says, "Ah, this is true!

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.

Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice; say that I was a drum major for peace; I was a drum major for righteousness.

As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race.