Quotes about Inspiration

When an artist runs out of inspiration or a scholar wearies of books, they always have the ability to live. Character is more important than intellect. Life is primary; our thoughts about it are secondary.

all nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is health of every man.

The condition of true naming, on the poet's part, is his resigning himself to the divine aura which breathes through forms, and accompanying that.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.

A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.

Fiction is not the opposite of truth—indeed, it is sometimes the most persuasive vehicle for it.

Dr. Martin Luther King said, 'If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who did his job well.

When Yesu is everything to you, it is impossible not to speak of him.

Octavius Winslow was a prominent evangelical preacher in the 1800s. He said of the Holy Spirit, "It is his aim . . . to increase our happiness by making us more holy."[717]