Quotes About Inspiration

I know that when I read the Bible, my life is transformed. I think differently. I act differently. I talk differently.

Don't underestimate the importance of reading and understanding God's Word.

The Holy Spirit is faithful to empower you to carry out your witness of Jesus.

God's strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

The promised return of Christ should motivate you toward daily holy living.

Birds are poems I haven't caught yet

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

Birds are holes in heaven through which a man may pass

As an English major I was familiar with the stories of dozens of writers trying to get their work done among the multifarious diversions of the world and the hurdles of their own vices. A professor had said that what saved writers is that they, like politicians, had the illusion of destiny that allowed them to overcome obstacles no matter how nominal their work.

I wish Barry Lopez would write novels. from Conversations with Jim Harrison

I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

It's up to poets to revive the gods.

I prefer the skyline of a shelf of books.

Just start at page one and write like a son of a bitch." —Jim Harrison

It didn't work to try to write about sex, doom, death, time, and the cosmos when you were thinking about a massive plate of spaghetti and meatballs.

A creek is more powerful than despair.

now that she's at one with herself and the world she can work my brain over with high horsepower energy.

Elaborate is the courtliness of the imagination, on one sore knee before beauty.

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life.

Someday we'll find it the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.