John Lydon Quotes

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

God knows why - no pun intended - but every time I write a song, I feel a need to touch on religion.

Faith is a really important part of my life and inspires me in all facets of my life, including my songwriting and my singing.

I have always felt that art, especially music, is but a demonstration of God.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

For me, music has been, in a sense, my religion, and it is what brings me closest to God or truth or whatever you want to call it.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

People have talents that are different. Where does the creative flow come from - inside us or from a higher power? I don't ask any questions. I just write it down.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I write a chapter, then edit it and edit it and edit it and edit it. I don't think we mine creativity from within. It's bestowed from on high, from God.

The writer has two kinds of faith: actual writing and sitting openly. Have faith in your personal effort or sweat. And faith in God, or whatever you want to call it. Then the voices will come. Faith is the big deal.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.