An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
If God imagined you at birth, what makes you think He's stopped imagining you now.
I rest not from my great task!: To open the Eternal Worlds,: to open the immortal Eyes of Man: Inwards into the Worlds of Thought;: Into eternity, ever expanding: In the Bosom of God,: The Human Imagination
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.
The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?
The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack of imagination in stocking the Universe on the part of the Deity.
I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods.
I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine
I want my art to help people reimagine God.
God and the imagination are one.
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
I don't think I could write a novel that wasn't theological.
If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.
Man - a figment of God's imagination.
