John Dryden Quotes

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Revealed religion had no weight with me.

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.

I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

As a teenager, I increasingly had questions about religion to which I found no good answers.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

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 was nothing then but the revelation of the spirit-of God that could make any of the Israelites understand and believe that he was their proper Messiah.

If you replace the word God in the Bible with the word Truth, it reads exactly right.

The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

A lot of people have a belief system that is strictly based on religious dogma.