#god

I suddenly knew that religion, God - something beyond everyday life - was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only imagination, it was a step on the way; because imagination itself can be a kind of willingness - a pretence that things are real, due to one's longing for them. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#faith #god #imagination #longing #religion

I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#drunk #leprechaun #imagination

We imagine that our theological/conceptual systems are the means by which we know God as God is. I truly believe that such postures and perspectives put us in danger of conceptual idolatry, worshiping our ideas of and frameworks for God. ↗

— Tim Keel

#theology #imagination

Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author who'd imagined me, which is why I (and everyone else) existed: to populate His narrative. My task was to imagine God in return: this was all He and I owed each other. ↗

— Martha Cooley

#god #imagination

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creator #god #love #art

I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while humans alone, afflicted with self-consciousness, imagine ourselves apart. ↗

— Scott Russell Sanders

#god #imagination

Sometimes, I believe that God overestimates his ability. It's quite a shame to be so perfect, yet lack so much imagination. But don't worry, I'll give your Creator God a C- for effort. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination

Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan... ↗

— Stephen Baxter

#imagination

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#inspirational #inspirational

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#individuality #religion #transcendentalism #imagination