Divine inspiration may refer to:
- Revelation
- Biblical inspiration
- The Ancient Greek Muses were said to be supernatural forces that gave artists their skill.
- Ancient Greek oracles were said to be subject to supernatural forces.
- Epiphany (feeling), the sudden realization or comprehension of the essence or meaning of something.
- Theophany, an appearance of a deity to man.
- Hierophany, a manifestation of the sacred.
- Divine Inspiration, a British musical group, rock active in 2003.
Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or inspiration:
“It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“Shakespeare carries us to such a lofty strain of intelligent activity, as to suggest a wealth which beggars his own; and we then feel that the splendid works which he has created, and which in other hours we extol as a sort of self-existent poetry, take no stronger hold of real nature than the shadow of a passing traveller on the rock. The inspiration which uttered itself in Hamlet and Lear could utter things as good from day to day, for ever.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)