Inspirational Quotes on Inspiration

“Foulgrin: "If you can keep Fletcher from saying a definitive no to a temptation, you've won. Whatever is not a no is merely a postponed yes." (advice to the tempter Squaltaint)”

“Lord Foulgrin: "You must not let him see Charis as a place of learning, exploration, duties, travel, companionship, banquets, celebrations, and productive work. A low view of heaven is our ace in the hole." (conspiring to bring Fletcher down after salvation)”

“If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he’s not fit to live.”

“Henry Luce to his Time magazine writers: "Tell the history of our time through the people who make it.”

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”

“It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.”

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”

“The darkest hour is just before the dawn. It may be that this moment of discouragement which you are going through is preliminary to a sunburst of new and beautiful living, if you will follow on to know the Lord.”

“When we begin to do for the least of these what David did for Mephibosheth, and what Jesus called his followers to do, we discover this: we are the broken and the needy. They. Are. Us. Perhaps more openly and undeniably, but all the same, they remind us of our true state before God. That is the gift they bring to God's people.”

“Do not be afraid to enter the cloud that is settling down on your life. God is in it. The other side is radiant with His glory.”

“Watch for subjects as you go but the city or the country. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will hear and see angels.”

“Great hopes make everything great possible.”

“Building a prayer culture takes time. . . and relentless pressure over time. I often say that it is much more a crock pot than a microwave.”

“As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conceded to "the difference personalities make".”

“It is better to be a wooden vessel filled with wine, that a golden one filled with water.”

“Were there ten thousand millions of heavens created above these highest heavens, and again as many above them, and as many above them, till angels were wearied with counting, it were but too low a seat to fix the princely throne of that Lord Jesus (whose ye are) above them all.”

“Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it.”

“To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him.”

“The righteousness of God in His election means, then, that as a righteous Judge God perceives and estimates as such the lost cause of the creature, and that in spite of its opposition He gives sentence in its favour, fashioning for it His own righteousness.”

“The slow pace of our perfection has to be borne with patience, provided that on our part we always do whatever we can to continue advancing.”