Quotes About Inspiration

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

I never get tired of hearing the great testimonies of people whom God has touched. I pray that the changes God has done in me will then be done in others.

God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god, maybe I can really do this". That was a review of "Margaret."

When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction.

What would a nontoxic god think of your creative goals? Might such a god really exist?

Passion for God is not youth thing. It is a hunger thing.

May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!

When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

God speaks to Man through his destiny.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing.

O LORD God give us a heart to heed to thy holy word.

Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials.

God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways