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“I don’t want to imagine great things, for that requires nothing more than imagination. Rather, I want to create great things, for that will require that I exercise faith in my imagination.”

Dream Faith Imagination Vision Imagine Greatness

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“It is easy to get swept up in cultural trends that tickle the imagination because those who propagate such trends can’t distinguish reality from imagination. However, they do know where we’re ticklish.”

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“If I ride the winds of my imagination out to the furthest periphery of my soul their gusts will eventually die and my journey will draw to a halt at some abbreviated horizon. For there is only one wind who gusts who bow to no horizon and who’s course is set to sweep the landscape of the eternal. And that wind is born of a God Who invites us to be swept up into the breeze that leaves every horizon in its wake and eternity riding at its feet.”

God Christian Jesus Imagination Destiny Wind Eternity Daring Possibilities Bold

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“Dying never having unleashed my imagination won’t be my first death.”

Death Passion Imagination Vision Dying Calling Unleash

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“How much is the impossible nothing more than a figment of a stymied imagination borne out of a blatant rejection of God, and gorged blind by the egotistical elevation of self? And if in fact I have done these two things, then the impossible is in fact not a figment of my imagination.”

Self God Christian Jesus Imagination Rejection Egotistical Figment

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“I can use my imagination to image I am something that I’m not, living out my life in a place that I’m not, and imagining that none of that is imagination. And you only imagine how dangerous that is.”

Life Imagination Imagine Deception Deceived

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“At the point that an organization becomes militant, it has in that act revealed the impotency of its message. For it is apparent that the appeal of the message is insufficient to capture the imagination of the masses. And we would be wise to remember that fear never captures imagination.”

Fear Imagination Capture Militant Message Interest Groups Demanding Fear Mongering Forceful

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“The lack of curiosity evidences the inability of wisdom to keep intellect intelligent.”

Wisdom Death Imagination Curiosity Intellect Thoughtful

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“If I put my imagination on a leash what I’ve really done is to put a noose around its neck.”

Hope Imagination Vision Imagine Aspirations Neck Leash Noose

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“The biggest figment of your imagination are the limitations that you don’t have.”

Imagination Limits Deception Limitations Error Skewed Figment Miscalculated

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“The trial is rarely as big as the perception of our smallness has made it.”

Imagination Attitude Negative Trials Struggles Difficulties Smallness Catastrophes

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“If your imagination is bound by fear it will never be free to imagine.”

Fear Imagination Freedom Creative Imagine Frightened Apprehensive

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“Of course I have my head in the clouds, for without that kind of perspective there’s no reason to have your feet on the ground.”

Imagination Vision Perspective Clouds Reasonable Head Ground Practical

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“If God has granted you the ability to think of great things, what would lead you to believe that He somehow forgot to grant you the ability to achieve them?”

God Dream Faith Imagination Achieve Opportunities Think Possibilities Achieving

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“Much like raking leaves in the wind, I do not need to change that which appears to be against me in order to make it work for me. I only need enough imagination to understand how the nature of what it does can help me achieve the goal that I want to accomplish.”

Wisdom Goal Nature Imagination Behavior Advantage Manipulate Leaves

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“The stuff of imagination is not simply to let one’s mind run wild with things grand, magical and altogether wonderful. Rather, the stuff of imagination is recognizing the responsibility that one has to seize those things with all of one’s might and to wrestle them back into this world. And we must do that not only because this is where they belong, but more importantly, this is where they are needed.”

Faith Imagination Vision Dreams Needed Encouragement Lie Belong Realities

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“My head is simply this wonderful repository from which I draw the assorted ideas and various images that shape what I write. However, the nature of that repository is such that anyone who might happen to stumble into it will immediately be lost in a wonderful kind of way. And I find it so wonderful that I refuse to stumble out of it.”

Thinking Ideas Imagination Wonderful Thoughts Stumble Repository

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“If you’re going to give your imagination legs and allow it to run, leave your leash at home and do the same with your fears.”

Imagination Creativity Legs Free Possibilities Run Unleash Let Loose

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“Release your imagination to be everything that you don’t believe it could be.”

Faith Belief Imagination Vision Imagine Dreams Goals Possibilities Hopes

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“I think that the real magic in life is that we possess enough imagination to be able to create a bit of it.”

Life Joy Imagination Vision Creativity Magic Create

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“To ask what the limits of our imagination are suggests that we firmly believe in limits, but we don’t have much faith in imagination.”

God Jesus Imagination Imagine Impossible Dreams Possibilities Miracles Possible Visions

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“If my imagination is taking me ‘away’ from something rather than taking me ‘to’ something, it was never imagination in the first place.”

Ideas Imagination Vision Imagine Dreams Concepts Dreaming Visionary

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“A dream is not simply an idea to entertain a life gone bored. Rather, it is a reality waiting to ignite a world gone dark.”

Dream Inspiration Hope Imagination Dark Encouragement Boredom Possibilities

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“A dream is our imagination waiting for us to be brave enough to pick up a pencil, zealous enough to sketch out a blueprint, determined enough to gather the tools, committed enough to lean into the task, and audacious enough to make imagination the reality that it was always meant to be. For in time, a dream left to be nothing but a dream will eventually leave our souls believing that dreams aren’t worth imagining. And I can only imagine a handful of things as devastating as that.”

Faith Imagination Dreams Confidence Determination Possibilities Fortitude Visionary Zealous

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“Dreams were meant to be born, not just dreamt about.”

Inspiration Imagination Plans Dreams Creating Planning Possibilities Dreaming Designing

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“To have a rigorous imagination is to live in ‘what is’ while embracing all the possibilities of ‘what could be.’ To live a fantasy is an attempt to escape both.”

Life Fear Imagination Fantasy Living Frightened Possibilities Avoidance

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“If I’m pretending I’m either attempting to expand the scope of my world through the magic of my imagination, or I’m attempting to flee the whole of it because of the depth of my fear.”

World Fear Imagination Fantasy Frightened Pretending Pretend

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“If you can imagine something, at least imagine it with legs so that it has a chance to go somewhere.”

Imagination Imagine Bravery Daring Possibilities Fortitude

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“A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”

Inspiration Passion Imagination Vision Creative Dreams Living Visionary

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“Christmas is God handing us a dream that’s beyond our imagination and then gifting us with resources that are beyond our imagination so that we can make that dream real beyond our imagination.”

God Christian Jesus Imagination Vision Dreams Christmas Gifts Aspirations Holidays

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“To think that ignoring something is to make it go away is to exercise some of the greatest imagination imaginable. And if there’s something that needs to go away, it’s that kind of imagination.”

Imagination Deny Denial Avoidance Ignore Avoid Vanish

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“I’d much rather have all of this be the ‘pigment’ of my imagination rather than a ‘figment,’ for at least it would all have some color.”

Faith Hope Belief Imagination Vision Color Anticipation Possibilities

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“I can imagine all sorts of things. But can I imagine a God who insists that we imagine the impossible so that the impossible need not remain imagination?”

God Christian Jesus Imagination Vision Imagine Impossible Idea Possible

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“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”

“I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.”

Believe Reality Faith Belief Change Imagination Imagine Opportunities Possibilities Challenge Escape Flee Renew Recreate Reconstruct

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“I am amazed that without any hesitation whatsoever I can completely believe myself to be on a grand journey of massive vistas and bold ascents, only to find that they are nothing more than a figment of a frightened imagination that needed a journey but could not admit to the fear of actually taking one.”

Fear Imagination Imagine Journey Adventure Calling Scared Denial Frightened Fearful Mission New Year Naive Fooled Misguided

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“The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.”

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“At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.”

Life Death Imagination Imagine Journey Disappointment Disappointed Mislead Avoidance Misled Avoid Misdirected Imagining Manipulated Duped

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“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

“An idea without sacrifice, regardless of grand it might be, will never be anything more than an idea.”

Dream Motivation Passion Imagination Imagine Sacrifice Idea Plan Concept Sacrificing Grand

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“Do I make up some ‘god’ in my mind, or do I make up my mind to know God?”

Mind God Imagination Knowledge Create Know Decide Develop Fabricate Construct Manufacture

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“The hand of God is wonderfully evident at those times when He pens stories whose lines we ourselves are far too fearful to pen or whose imaginations are far too limited to envision. And I would unashamedly suggest that the Christmas story is that very story.”

God Stories Jesus Fear Imagination Imagine Evidence Jesus Christ Christmas Story Frightened Fearful Holidays Pen Penmanship Hand Of God Authenticate Penning

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“Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.”

Dream Fear Imagination Imagine Frightened Paralyzed Expand Fearing Exaggerate Magnify Compound Bred Magnified Overblown

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“Given the lethal enormity of sin and the inestimable value of a single soul, a baby in a manger and a man on a cross makes more sense that anything else I will ever be able to possibly imagine.”

Soul God Jesus Imagination Sin Imagine Baby Jesus Christ Value Christmas Cross Holidays Visualize Manger Enormity

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“To pretend is to do nothing more than imagine life as something wonderful so that we don’t have to incur the pain that it takes to actually make life wonderful.”

Life Pain Suffering Change Imagination Work Imagine Wonderful Sacrifice Influence Commitment Transformation Pretending Transform Pretend Sacrificing

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“Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth.”

God Born Imagination Birth Christmas Improbable

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“What is an adventure, I might ask? And in the asking, I might begin to understand that my adventures are sorely limited to the confines of my lackluster imagination. Therefore, an adventure of the most robust and wild sort must be constructed by an unlimited imagination. And unless I am mistaken, only God has an imagination like that.”

God Goal Imagination Vision Dreams Adventure Unlimited Aspirations Limited Constructed Lackluster

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“Our imagination is God’s ingenious gift that hands us the privilege of romping and playing in realities that we can’t see only because we’ve yet to create them.”

Play God Imagination Challenges Vision Creative Privilege Goals Gift Create Imaginative Ingenious Envision

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“How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I’ve chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I’ve chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?”

Choices Passion Fear Change Imagination Imagine Gift Denial Imagined

Book:Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

Source: Flecks of Gold on a Path of Stone: Simple Truths for Profound Living

“Suddenly someone stops long enough to listen. And in that simple action, some marginalized person finally realizes that they actually have a story to tell and that it’s worth the telling. Therefore, I make it a point to stop rather frequently.”

People Listening Value Individuality Story Worth Listen Life Story Personhood

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