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:
“Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab’s or the Indian’s? When I think of the benefactors of the race, whom we have apotheosized as messengers from heaven, bearers of divine gifts to man, I do not see in my mind any retinue at their heels, any carload of fashionable furniture.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What is called eloquence in the forum is commonly found to be rhetoric in the study. The orator yields to the inspiration of a transient occasion, and speaks to the mob before him, to those who can hear him; but the writer, whose more equable life is his occasion, and who would be distracted by the event and the crowd which inspire the orator, speaks to the intellect and heart of mankind, to all in any age who can understand him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)