Quotes About Inspiration

Depression tends to turn us away from the everyday things of God's creation. But whenever God steps in, His inspiration is to do the most natural, simple things--things we would never have imagined God was in, but as we do them we find Him there.

If Jesus Christ is only a teacher, then all He can do is frustrate me by setting a standard before me I cannot attain.

Gather your material carefully, and then allow God to "set your words on fire" for His glory.

The creative power of redemption comes through the preaching of the gospel, but never because of the personality of the preacher.

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

We are not made for the mountains, for sunrises, or for the other beautiful attractions in life - those are simply intended to be moments of inspiration. We are made for the valley and the ordinary things of life and that is where we have to prove our stamina and strength.

The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right

Von Goethe stammt auch das tiefe Wort, daß der Mathematiker nur insofern vollkommen sei, als er das Schöne des Wahren in sich empfinde.

To Goethe we owe the profound saying: 'The mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true'. Here we feel how nearly the secret of number is related to the secret of artistic creation. Mathematics, then, are an art. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

Ich habe die Überzeugung gewonnen, dass Kinder das beste und klügste Publikum sind, das man sich als Geschichtenerzähler nur wünschen kann. Kinder sind strenge, unbestechliche Kritiker." [As quoted on Preußler's official website .]

Wer für Kinder schreibt, übt den Beruf des Schriftstellers unter erschwerten Bedingungen aus, und dies freiwillig ... Wer für Erwachsene schreibt, schreibt ausschließlich für Erwachsene. Wer für Kinder schreibt, schreibt automatisch für Erwachsene mit." [As quoted on Preußler's official website .]

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According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible." You've bee gnomed

There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.

Do you know why I have so patiently translated Poe? Because he resembled me. The first time I opened one of his books, I saw with terror and rapture subjects dreamed by me and described by him, twenty years earlier. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Es Dios quien primero ilumina, obra y habla al interior del hombre visionario abierto, antes que éste logre expresarse a sí mismo, pensarse a sí mismo y hacerse a sí mismo en el yo soy.

The artist has breathed in the world to breathe it out again; the philosopher has the world outside him and he has to absorb it.

Whatever good I have kept in me—and in the world it is very hard to keep any—I owe it to Ben on those still Sunday mornings in those deep, old, quiet, green woods.

God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray.

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Envy depreciates the genius of the great Homer.