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Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. -
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if Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him. -
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“He’s just a boy, pretending to be a wolf, pretending to be king” -
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Children, in particular, are driven to create—if we just nudge them in that direction. They thrive in a world stocked with raw materials. But too often, and with the best of intentions, we fill their ... -
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Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives. Our imagination enables us to leave our routine everyday existence by fantasizing about travel, food, sex, falling in love, or having th... -
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We should exercise that far higher privilege which appertains to Christians, of having “the mind of Christ;” and then the two worlds, visible and invisible, will become familiar to us even as they wer... -
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Tell all the truth, but tell it slant. . . . The truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind. -
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In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have; for it is not the things we see the most clearly that influence us the most... -
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Journey all over the universe in a map, without the expense and fatigue of traveling, without suffering the inconveniences of heat, cold, hunger, and thirst. -
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[If] your imagination of God is starved then when you come up against difficulties, you have no power, you can only endure in darkness. -
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Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life. -
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The challenge facing Christianity today is not a lack of motivation or resources, but a failure of imagination. -
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But works of imagination come of an impulse to transcend the limits of experience or provable knowledge in order to make a thing that is whole. No human work can become whole by including everything, ... -
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Imagination “completes the picture” by transcending the actual memories and provable facts. -
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What I know does not yield a full or adequate accounting for what I have imagined. It seems to have been “given.” My experience has taught me to believe in inspiration, about which I think nobody can ... -
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You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -
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Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it. -
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Our imagination so powerfully magnifies time, by continual reflections upon it, and so diminishes eternity . . . for want of reflection, that we make a nothing of eternity and an eternity of nothing. ... -
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After the Enlightenment in the West, our collective imagination emptied the cosmos of supernatural life, as sure as industry emptied Cape Cod of cod. -
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Information alone never leads to transformation. Rather, it is what we experience as real on the inside that transforms us. That is all about the use of the imagination. -
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We have immense difficulty practicing God’s presence and keeping God’s reality before our mind’s eye because we have dismissed or denigrated our capacity to intuitively and imaginatively apprehend and... -
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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. -
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Culture is what we make of the world. Culture is, first of all, the name for our relentless, restless human effort to take the world as it’s given to us and make something else. -
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood. -
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -
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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself. -
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Questions of implementation are of no consequence until the vision can be imagined. The imagination must come before implementation. Our culture is competent to implement almost anything and to imagin... -
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The way to a person’s heart is to capture their imagination (mind), move their emotions (affections), and challenge their actions (will). -
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Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to w... -
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Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.
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