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An expert problem solver must be endowed with two incompatible qualities, a restless imagination and a patient pertinacity.

- Howard W. Eves

In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual, but through individuals living together as one body, each supplying the deficiencies of the others.

- J. B. Phillips

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, and to devote the will to the purpose of God.

- William Temple

When temptation knocks, imagination usually answers.

- Dan Bennett

What man has done to man in the former Yugoslavia strains even the most agile imagination.

- Grant Niemann

But who can paint Like nature? Can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

- James Thomson