Quotes about Imagination

So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or suggest anything to it. And this seems to be the reason why persons that are under the disease of melancholy are commonly so visibly and remarkably subject to the suggestions and temptations of Satan... Innumerable are the ways by which the mind may be led on to all kind of evil thoughts, by the exciting of external ideas in the imagination.

People may love a God of their own imaginations, when they are far from loving such a God as reigns in heaven.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

The battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

What if all the myths and fairy tales were pointing to something that was not only true but also truer than anything we knew in this world, to a realm that was truer and more real?

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

When I want to read a novel, I write one.