Today's Theme: Inspiration
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ON TODAY'S SITE:
Rabecca Welch, Emily Dickinson, Francis de Sales, Jean-Pierre de Caussade,
Vincent van Gogh, Vincent McNabb, Kozan
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Okenagan Flower by Chuck Bowman - All rights reserved
Love is the inspiration for forever,
For the heart to be whole,
For the ear to always hear those words,
For the soul to have another,
For the mouth to speak the truth.
Love is the inspiration for the heart to seek God,
For the ear to hear his word,
For the soul to reach for him,
For the mouth to speak his truth,
For the eyes to always look upon him first,
For God is the inspiration for Love.
Final stanzas of the poem:
"Love is the Inspiration"
by Rabecca Welch
Source: PoemHunter.com
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The soul should always stand ajar,
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
American poet
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By inspiration I mean all the affection, attraction, inward reproaches
and regrets, perceptions and illuminations with which God moves,
working in our hearts through His fatherly care, in order to awaken,
to kindle, lead, and draw us to heavenly love and holy desires.
St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
From "A Diary of Meditations"
Photo by Chuck Bowman All rights reserved
Each moment imposes a virtuous obligation on us which committed souls
obey. For God inspires them with a desire to learn one moment what, in
the next will uphold them in the practice of virtue...In all that these souls
do, they are aware only of an urge to write, read, question or observe this.
All they can say is: "I have an urge to write, read, question or observe this.
I obey this urge and God, who inspires it, supplies me with a store of know-
ledge which subsequently I am able to use to the advantage of myself and
others." This is why they must always remain simple, pliant and respon-
sive to the slightest prompting from these almost imperceptible impulses.
God, who possesses them, may make use of them in any way for his glory.
Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675-1751)
French Jesuit priest
From "The Sacrament of the Present Moment"
Translated by Kitty Muggeridge
HarperSanFrancisco, 1996
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For my part I know nothing with any certainty,
but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Post-Impressionistic Dutch painter
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Inspiration presupposes revelation. Inspiration
may be called the guardian of revelation.
Vincent McNabb (1868-1943)
Irish scholar and priest
From "Frontiers of Faith and Reason"
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Totally Random Bonus Quote:
With stammering lips and insufficient sounds,
I strive and struggle to deliver right
the music of my nature...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
Victorian era English poet
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