Quotes About Inspiration

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation.

The people who get the best out of others are those who insist on seeing them at their best.

He will be the cause whereby many will rise. Long ago Seneca said that what people needed above all was a hand let down to lift them up. It is the hand of Jesus which lifts us out of the old life and into the new, out of the sin into the goodness, out of the shame into the glory.

Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

The essence of civilization is that men should come to be led more by hope and ambition and example and less by fear.

I have spent most of my life most happily in making plans for others to carry out.

What is now proved was once imagined.

Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.

Art can never exist without Naked beauty display'd.

O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

And I made a rural pen,And I stain'd the water clear,And I wrote my happy songsEvery child may joy to hear.

The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils and Hell, is because he was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it.

What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?When the stars threw down their spearsAnd water'd heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Hear the voice of the Bard!Who Present, Past, and Future sees,Whose ears have heardThe Holy WordThat walk'd among the ancient trees.

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed, or flourish, in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish!

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

Turn away no more.Why wilt thou turn away?The starry floor,The wat'ry shoreIs giv'n thee till the break of day.