The Pelee Island Book House is full
of writing inspiration, from antique typewriters to framed quotes by classic authors, and there's even a library.
The latest screen version in a long line that includes Mickey and the Beanstalk and efforts starring Abbott and Costello and the Three Stooges, the Bryan Singer (Valkyrie)- directed, Darren Lemke (Shrek Forever After), Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) and Dan Studney (TV's Phantom Investigators)- written offering (based on a story by Lemke and David Dobkin) makes the most
of its written inspiration, with the expected aspects present amidst a cavalcade of computer generated imagery.
Not exact matches
Curious about a blog post titled «How I make money: My 18 sources
of online revenue»
written by Mark which led to a candid discussion to serve as advice and
inspiration to those just getting started.
During that period, he «continued to
write well and fast and anywhere he wanted, caught up in gusts
of inspiration,» Max
writes.
If
inspiration strikes you at odd hours
of the night, Oliver suggests
writing the email, saving it in your drafts folder, and sending it during working hours.
Steven Pressfield, in his bestselling book The War
of Art, quotes Somerset Maugham who said «I
write only when
inspiration strikes.
If companies spent as much time making sure the basic information is there as they did on
writing vague paragraphs
of inspiration about some greater company vision that no one understands, we'd all be happier.»
Have any
of them
written books or given talks you can look to for
inspiration?
It reminded me
of the feeling that
inspiration gives, as I
wrote in «How
inspiration feels, in depth ``, that inspired people look back fondly at the crazy amount
of work they did after the project is done and inspired people value missing less rewarding activities, no matter how fun they would have been.
If you missed it, I also recently
wrote a guest post on Marketing Pilgrim on marketing companies in the INC 500 — I think the INC 500 is great resource for evaluating the state
of the industry and also as
inspiration for building our own businesses.
Carney makes the Obama
inspiration explicit when Carney
writes that if Obama can make a big deal out
of tax breaks for corporate jets, libertarian Republicans can make a big deal out
of the Export - Import bank.
According to The Bible: 1 - People
wrote the words
of the Bible under the
inspiration of God 2 - A perfect God created imperfect people
The Sumerians were probably the first to
write down their beliefs, which were the
inspiration for much
of later Mesopotamian mythology, religion, and astrology.
«god» doesn't exist and is make believe, your religious texts were
written by human beings without any kind
of «divine
inspiration» regardless
of what you read in them...
written by people who thought the Earth was flat... it isn't.
If Judas killed himself, he was not there to
write the book under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit
«Mr. Lincoln's religion is too well known to me to allow
of even a shadow
of a doubt; he is or was a Theist - a Rationalist, denying all extraordinary --- supernatural
inspiration or revelation,» William H. Herndon
wrote in a letter dated February 11, 1866, to Edward McPherson, clerk
of the U.S. House
of Representatives.
TrueReality, you say «But we do believe it was
written by human authors under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.»
WHICH VERSION
of the Bible was
written by human authors under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit?
You base what you believe off
of a single book that was
written by man without
inspiration from any form
of higher power.
This viewpoint may or may not be compatible with a belief that the Bible is divinely inspired and
written by humans under the influence
of that
inspiration.
So practically, I want to make a bit
of space this morning to take on the things I actually do to make time, energy, and
inspiration to
write.
Stott's preaching and
writing renewed faith in the
inspiration of Scripture — not only because he defended it, but because he displayed it.»
He
writes, for example: «The fact that our author can persistently talk about sacrifice as if it meant a joyless, unwilling and hesitant gift shows that not even the faintest spark
of religious
inspiration can have glowed in his heart» (p26).
Inspiration extends only to the
written words
of the Bible.
The apostle Paul
wrote under divine
inspiration: «Now I exhort you, brothers, through the name
of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and that there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line
of thought.»
When one looks at how the book was
written, edited, compiled, altered and translated over the centuries, it becomes pretty obvious that it is an entirely human affair, bereft
of any divine authorship or
inspiration.
On the question
of biblical authority in Reformation theology much has been
written but especial note should be taken on A. Skevington Wood, Captive to the Word: Martin Luther, Doctor
of Sacred Scripture (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969); Kenneth Kantzer, «Calvin and the Holy Scripture,» in
Inspiration and Interpretation, ed.
That quality
of conviction is found precisely in one
of Gwynne's
inspirations, the 1918 edition
of The Elements
of Style, the original version William Strunk
wrote for his Cornell University students.
Clearly, the NT as
written by the apostles and writers under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit is the authoritative source for the church.
So... when the Holy Spirit gave
inspiration to the Apostle Paul in Roman 1:26 - 28 to
write; «For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature (Lesbianism): and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use
of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with me working that which is unseemly (Homosexuality), and receiving in themselves that recompense
of their error which was meet.
Now these prophecies were either given by
inspiration of God or the prophets just
wrote them as they thought they should be.
Therefore, Paul would be saying that the Word
of God was inspired when it was spoken, but this
inspiration does not apply to the
written word.
Though it might be true that the ancient Israelites had undeveloped cosmology, this is not true
of God, and so for this view to be correct, we must either deny
inspiration, or have God inspiring the authors
of Scripture to
write about Himself in inaccurate ways.
It was natural enough that the Church, thus brought to bay, should pause to gather
inspiration and confidence from the memories
of its Founder, and since the inevitable disappearance
of the first generation
of witnesses was now being greatly accelerated by the persecution, it became important that these memories should be perpetuated in
writing.
Now let us have a cloose look at modern man or say Politics Today where you drop all that behind and do as Personal Interests with out any commitment verbal or
written Just Buy and Sell at Sale they Trade with the Fate, Faith and destiny
of World and New Worlds Nations and that is why no conflict ever settled among nations but getting even worse and Modern Prophets
of Inspiration and Knowldge Remind and Warn
of World Food and Waters about Famine in the world and the need for working agianst that otherwise nations would become as Live Zombies eating each other flesh.
All the books
of the Old and New Testaments, given by divine
inspiration, are the
written Word
of God, the only infallible rule
of faith and practice.
Deaval's
write up is worth reading if you're not familiar with G.K., as I suspect that Chesterton will continue to serve as
inspiration for evangelicals dissatisfied with the current state
of affairs.
A Servant Jenn — All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God, -------- Yes, this is what the human authors that
wrote the word suggested.
I'm not saying that the
writing of the bible is nasty, I'm saying that human beings use the justification
of divine
inspiration for all sorts
of things.
Commenting on his understanding
of the nature
of inspiration, he
wrote:
In seeking to maintain a high view
of inspiration, evangelicals have wrestled with the fact that God's revelation was stated in terms
of the language, logic, and location
of the people to whom it was originally
written.
In conclusion, then, we may say that biblical
inspiration is the effect
of God's promise on individuals
writing within the context
of a community
of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision
of promise emanating from the Spirit
of hope.
While I do not want to prejudge you with your recent «revelations» as to what you believe describes the «two men in a bed» or «two women at the mill grinding,» I think before anyone interprets this as Jesus not judging one because
of their sexual orientation, but obviously
of their faith in what Jesus did for them on the Cross, we also need to look at what the Apostle Paul
wrote under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
Green's
inspiration for
writing the book came from his five - month stint as a children's hospital chaplain, one step in a winding early life that took him away from that possible call to ministry, and into the world
of publishing.
Last week I
wrote a post about the
inspiration of Scripture and the
inspiration of other religious books which struck a cord with a lot
of people.
Over the next several posts, I want to explain the history
of the doctrine
of the
Inspiration of Scripture, the passages that are used to defend it, and provide a slightly modified and nuanced approach to the process by which I think God might have superintended the
writing of Scripture.
But whatever happened from from God's side
of things in the process
of writing Scripture, I'm just not sure it can be called «
inspiration of Scripture» as classically defined.
At the same time, Cyprian indicates right at the beginning that this letter is not
written to convey his personal understanding
of the Eucharist or his own interpretation
of eucharistic practises, but has been «commanded by God's
inspiration and instruction» (1.2).
Biblical
inspiration is the effect
of God's promise on individuals
writing within the context
of a community
of faith brought into existence and sustained by a vision
of promise emanating from the Spirit
of hope.
In its own quiet way, this brief, well «
written book is a source
of inspiration; like Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Israel, it provides witness to the great deeds
of «the righteous among the nations.»