“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”

“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”

“My love is my soul's imagination…
how do I love you… imagine.”

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting”

“At some point, the novelist has to leap head first into the pool of imagination in order to more freely explore the truth.”

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

“There is already so much grace in a Christian body. Can you imagine how much grace there is in a soul?”

“Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.”

“I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.”

“I know it's easy to imagine but its easier to just "do"
If you can't "do" what you imagine
then what is imagination to you?”