Lindsey Stirling Quotes

If you don't have much passion, well, get on your face and pray for the passion and get into the word of God. That's what I've been sharing. That's the whole concept.

Every time I sit for a song, I feel I am finished. It's like a beggar sitting waiting for God to fill your bowl with the right thought. In every song, I ask help from Him. Everybody around is so good, so to create music that will connect with so many people is not humanly possible without inspiration.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

Sometimes God answers our questions with questions.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

I don't know where my songs come from... If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane.

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.

I hope to God that I know what I am doing.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way of doing it are revealed to me. I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark.