Inspirational Quotes on Inspiration

“For years to come the debris of a convulsed world will beset our steps. It will require a purpose stronger than any man and worthy of all men to calm and inspirit us. A sane society whose riches are happy children, men and women, beautiful with peace and creative activity, is not going to be ordained for us. We must make it ourselves.”

“I was not a great communicator, but I communicated great things.”

“Religion is what you do with your solitude.”

“When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring,”

“But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.”

“There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.”

“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”

“My love of consistency with my own doctrinal views is not great enough to allow me knowingly to alter a single text of Scripture. I have great respect for orthodoxy, but my reverence for inspiration is far greater. I would sooner a hundred times over appear to be inconsistent with myself than be inconsistent with the word of God. I never thought it to be any very great crime to seem to be inconsistent with myself; for who am I that I should everlastingly be consistent? But I do think it a great crime to be so inconsistent with the word of God that I should want to lop away a bough or even a twig from so much as a single tree of the forest of Scripture. God forbid that I should cut or shape, even in the least degree, any divine expression.”

“[D]on't try to know everything. You can't. Find Him in the Word, for the Holy Ghost wrote this Book. He inspired it, and He will be revealed in its pages.”

“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are as easy as an old shoe are generally of as lttle worth .”

“No sooner was the wound given than the remedy was provided and revealed.”

“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror od a family feud. I look upon the true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service to of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.”

“I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, & every war has to me the horror of a family feud. I look upon true patriotism as the brotherhood of man & the service of all to all. The only fighting that saves is the one that helps the world toward liberty, justice & an abundant life for all.”

“There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.”

“No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”

“Do not feel surprise at being schooled amid toil: you are being schooled for a wondrous destiny.”

“Jesus does not suffer so as to exclude your suffering. He bears a cross, not that you may escape it, but that you may endure it.”

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”

“​A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot”

“If you will hear me through a very little more, all you can ever do for me is done. I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you inspired it.”