John Dryden Quotes

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.

The Bible for me is holy writ. It's a very straightforward thing, although I am not a literalist.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings.

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

Inerrancy means the word of God always stands over us and we never stand over the word of God.

The Scriptures of God are my only foundation and substance in all matters of weight and importance.

You all know that certain things are necessary to make a religion. First of all, there is the book. The power of the book is simply marvellous! Whatever it be, the book is the centre round which human allegiance gathers. Not one religion is living today but has a book. With all its rationalism and tall talk, humanity still clings to the books. In your country every attempt to start a religion without a book has failed. In India sects rise with great success, but within a few years they die down, because there is no book behind them. So in every other country.

If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover.

Most people believe that the Creator of the universe wrote (or dictated) one of their books. Unfortunately, there are many books that pretend to divine authorship, and each makes incompatible claims about how we all must live.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God.

Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.