“Christians . . . ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. Great painting is not "photographic": think of the Old Testament art commanded by God. There were blue pomegranates on the robes of the priest who went into the Holy of Holies. In nature there are no blue pomegranates. Christian artists do not need to be threatened by fantasy and imagination, for they have a basis for knowing the difference between them and the real world "out there." The Christian is the really free person--he is free to have imagination. This too is our heritage. The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”

Francis A. Schaeffer

Francis A. Schaeffer - “Christians . . . ought not to be...” 1

Similar quotes

“The Christian is the one whose imagination should fly beyond the stars.”

Francis A. Schaeffer
Read more

“The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from God's world because God made us to be creative.”

Francis A. Schaeffer
Read more

“Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.”

Ruth Hurmence Green
Read more

“I live in a thought world which is filled with creativity; inside my head there is creative imagination. Why? Because God, who is the Creator, has made me in His own image, I can go out in imagination beyond the stars. This is true not only for the Christian, but for every man. Every man is made in the image of God; therefore, no man in his imagination is confined to his own body.”

Francis A. Schaeffer
Read more

“Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination.”

Elbert Hubbard
Read more