13,477 Quotes About Inspiration

Sorrow has a great refining influence on our sacred souls.

Our existence and our environment enclosed entities of divinity.

There is grace for survival; I survived two years without a regular salary.

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

True leaders don't give consoling answers, they take constructive actions.

Walker-thinkers have found various ways to accommodate the gifts that their walking brings. Caught paperless on his walks in the Czech enclaves of Iowa, maestro Dvořák scribbles the string quartets that visited his brain on his starched white shirt cuffs (so the legend goes). More proactively, Thomas Hobbes fashioned a walking stick for himself with an inkwell attached, and modern poet Mary Oliver leaves pencils in the trees along her usual pathways, in case a poem descends during her rambles.

Instructors could teach the basic techniques and methods, but a mastery of mechanical knowledge could never make a person an artist. No one could teach creativity or invention. A spark needed to come from within. It must be something unique, something discovered by the individual, a leap of understanding, a burst of insight, the combining of common elements in an unexpected way.

Leadership potential is in everyone; we all have it, but we all don't know it until we have a direct individual encounter with the Holy Spirit of God. The principal source of leadership influence is the Holy Spirit.