Quotes about Imagination

Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. So, I try to do the best with each as it comes and that's where my responsibility ends. But I just don't wait for ideas. I look for them. Constantly. And if I don't use the ideas that I find, they're going to quit showing up.

The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." — GENESIS 8:21

Who we are and when and where we exist affect how we imagine God.

reimagining

The God I read about in the Bible is not what God is like—in some timeless abstraction, and that's that—but how God was imagined and then reimagined by ancient people of faith living in real times and places.

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me:

A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Tell those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD!