Quotes About Inspiration

Consistent with Martin Klaproth's inspiration in 1789 to link his discovery of a new element with the recent discovery of the planet Uranus and with McMillan's suggestion to extend the scheme to Neptune, Seaborg would name element 94 for Pluto, the ninth planet outward from the sun, discovered in 1930 and named for the Greek god of the underworld, a god of the earth's fertility but also the god of the dead: plutonium. *

trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

Rutherford's and Soddy's discussions of radioactive change therefore inspired the science fiction novel that eventually started Leo Szilard thinking about chain reactions and atomic bombs.

A Canadian physician and entrepreneur named Abraham Gesner pioneered the development of coal oil, initially as a source of coal gas for lighting.

I work to support my habit of writing.

True spirituality is not taught, it's caught. Once our sails have been unfurled to the Spirit, henceforth our motivation for the journey toward holiness and wholeness is immense gratitude.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

we have faith in Christ so we can have the faith of Christ.

All that a spiritual teacher really does is "second the motions" of the Holy Spirit.

All who hold any kind of unexplainable hope believe in resurrection, whether they are formal Christians or not, and even if they don't believe Jesus was physically raised from the dead.

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.

Good art seems absolutely essential to healthy religion.

If something comes toward you with grace and can pass through you toward others with grace, you can trust it as the voice of God.

Perhaps the greatest paradox of the spiritual journey is this: wisdom and love do not come from success but from continuing failure.

God shocks and stuns us into love. God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can change.

My favorite teacher in college advised me not to write a book until it was impossible not to.

imagination without energy remains inert...

The Decemberists. Belle and Sebastian. Mumford and Sons.

Many inspired plans are hatched in darkness. And once dignity is surrendered there are plenty of options.

A writer has to see things twice. First the thing itself, then its potential for a story. What he sees this second time is, in a sense, who he is. It's his artistic personality. What he doesn't see twice is just as revealing.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.

You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that is what my mother made me.

The old woman could inspire random violence moment to moment, but for the big things could be counted on, provided that sacrifice and not intervention was called for. Anne smiled to herself. There was, after all, something to be said for sacrifice.

I write about it not because I understand it, but because I don't.