What Your Imagination Shouldn't Do

Another nugget from the master of street corner theology. These little digestible chunks will help us on our way to sanity.

Thus the first test of any statement concerning spiritual reality is not can imagination form a mental picture of it, but does it stand up to the examination of the intellect, do the terms of it contradict each other, is it conceivable or inconceivable?

Imagination can say nothing about it either way. It cannot reject it. It cannot accept it either. It must leave it alone, and that is precisely one of the things that imagination hates to do. -- Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity