The Moral Imagination

The Moral Imagination= ??The great instrumentof moral goodis imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

JesusThats why I tell stories: to create readiness,to nudge the people toward receptive insight. ( Matthew 13, The Message)

Is imagination untrue? Escapist?To construct plausible and moving other worldsyou must draw on the only real other world we know, that of the spirit.

(C.S. Lewis, On Stories)

J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories fantasy remains a human right:we make in our measureand in our derivative mode,because we are made:and not only made,but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.

Ursula K. Le Guin, Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?For fantasy is true, of course. It isnt factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

True art has a mythic qualityin that it speaks of that which was true, is true,and will be true.

Madeleine LEngle,Story as Truth: The Rock that is Higher

C.S. LewisI believe in Christianityas I believe that the Sun has risennot only because I see itbut because by itI see everything else.

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