John Dryden Quotes

Writing is like meditation or going into an ESP trance, or prayer. Like dreaming. You are tapping into your unconscious. To be fully conscious and alert, with life banging and popping and cuckooing all around, you are not going to find your way to your subconscious, which is a place of complete submission.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.

It always started with a dream.

Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed.

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Our dreams make us large.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

Always have a dream that will outlast your lifetime.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

All over the world, young men and young women will always dream dreams.

Where do you get dreams like this?

To accomplish big things, I am convinced you must first dream big dreams.

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

The greatest single human gift is the ability to chase down our dreams.

I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.