Quotes About Inspiration

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.

We cannot kindle when we willThe fire that in the heart resides,The spirit bloweth and is still,In mystery our soul abides.

That sweet city [Oxford] with her dreaming spires.

Sophocles long agoHeard it on the Aegean.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry

Humid the air! Leafless, yet soft as spring. The tender purple spray on copse and briers! And that sweet city with her dreaming spires, she needs not June for beauty's heightening. Lovely all the time she lies...

We should conceive of poetry worthily, and more highly than it has been the custom to conceive of it. We should conceive of it as capable of higher uses, and called to higher destinies, than those which in general men have assigned to it hitherto. More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life for us, to console us, to sustain us.

Waiting from heaven for the spark to fall.

There is nothing permanent about being a writer.

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.

To speak of creativity is to speak of profound intimacy. It is also to speak of our connecting to the Divine in us and of our bringing the Divine back to the community. This is true whether we understand our creativity to be begetting and nourishing our children, making music, doing theater, gardening, writing, teaching, running a business, painting, constructing houses, or sharing the healing arts of medicine and therapy.

Creativity as Divine intimacy flows through us and is bigger than we are, urging us to go to the edge and grow larger. And our growth in turn delights God. "God is delighted to watch your soul enlarge," says Eckhart.

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

Christ's disciples were no orators, till the Spirit made them such.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.

It is well for us that our salvation doth not depend upon our being able to solve all these difficulties, nor is the divine authority of the gospels at all weakened by them; for the evangelists are not supposed to write these genealogies either of their own knowledge or by divine inspiration

When Christ by his Spirit draws us we must with our spirits run after him.

The graces and comforts of the Spirit are communicated to the soul by the enlightening of the understanding.

Matthew Hughes

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We become the stories we listen to. But perhaps the more important question is, what stories do you listen to? What stories are forming your life?

Dedicate yourself above all else to becoming the-best-version-of-yourself. It is the best thing you can do for your spouse, your children, your friends, your colleagues, your employees, your employer, your church, your nation, the human family, and yourself.

God never goes back; he always moves forward. ... God always wants our future to be bigger than our past, and God always moves forward.