" Garrett Green has argued persuasively that in many instances the biblical term “heart” ( , lev; καρδία, kardia) refers to what we call imagination.14 This notion wonderfully illuminates the use of that word in the eucharistic liturgy: “Lift up your hearts” — lift up your imaginations, open them toward God. Yet an aroused imagination is not in itself a holy state, for the “heart” can be healthy or perverted. "
― Ellen F. Davis , The Art of Reading Scripture