“It was the Lord who put into my mind the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies, all who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me! There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of marvelous inspiration from the Holy Scriptures!” Christopher Columbus, 1492 A.D.
Tag: inspiration
Just Give Me The Money!
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you rejoice in nothing but Himself! Samuel Rutherford (1600-1661) Scottish Theologian. In his political book, “The Law and the Prince”, he presents the theory of limited government and Constitutionalism. Charles Spurgeon described Rutherford’s letters as the nearest thing to inspiration in all the writings of mere men!
Leadership!
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy! Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945)