body, mind; flesh, spirit

The contrast is not between body and mind, but between flesh, i.e., all man's physical and mental faculties as they exist in his enslaved self-loving state, and spirit, which witnesses within him to all that his existence was, and still is meant to be, capable of loving God in the same way that God loves him.

- W. H. Auden, Augustus to Augustine (a review of Cochrane's Christianity and Classical Culture)

the human image of God

I have seen the human image of God, and my soul is saved.

- St John of Damascus, Homily on the Defence of the Ikons

to build new self-consistent worlds

You will probably be tempted, by your habit of mind, to ask - what does all this prove? It does not, in the scientific sense of the word, prove anything. The function of imaginative speech is not to prove, but to create - to discover new similarities, and to arrange them to form new unities, to build new self-consistent worlds out of the universe of undifferentiated mind stuff.

- Dorothy L. Sayers, Creative Mind