Quotes about Inspiration

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

There are two kinds of teachers—the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies." (I hope I am remembered as a prodder.)

If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.

The heart of everything is faith. Without it, life has no meaning. With it, everything is ennobled.

Oh, I wonder if I shall ever be able to do anything worth while in the way of writing.

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

You are always new to me.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

My mom is a wonderful woman. She's always been an inspiration to me, but having kids helped me make even more sense of my relationship with her.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.