Quotes About Inspiration

The biographies are very enlightening because you realise, "Oh my God, all these people I've admired - and tried to emulate even - when I was younger died tragically from substance abuse.

I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!

I must look past my capabilities and see God's possibilities

Moses goes to the top of the mountain and he comes back glowing, transformed. He became the vision.

We are inspired by the God that we see in others and suddenly we find ourselves changing. We find ourselves giving more. We find that our lives become rather amazingly beautiful.

Good is that darkening of our lives, Which only God can brighten; But better still that hopeless load, Which none but God can lighten.

James Taylor and God are the reasons I play music.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

God speaks through me.

I told you, God is not coy. He's more likely to hit you across the forehead with a two-by-four than whisper in your ear

If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we must return to the God who is their true Author.

I believe every child is born with a gift from God - big or small - and that we should all make the most of our talents.

The great writer finds style as the mystic finds God, in his own soul.

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

We need continuing communication from god. One stream of light is not enough.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.