In dwelling on divine mysteries, keep they heart humble, they thoughts reverent, they soul holy. Le not philosophy be ashamed to be confuted, nor logic to be confounded, nor reason to be surpassed. What thou canst not prove, approve; what thou canst not comprehend, believe; what thou canst believe, admire and love and obey. So shall thine ignorance be satisfied in they faith, and thy doubt be swallowed up in they reverence, and they faith be as influential as sight. Put out thine own candle, and then shalt thou see clearly the sun of righteousness.
- Jeremy Taylor
The Shakespeare of Divines

Abysmal Ignorance

Few things could be culturally more deplorable than that today the average college graduate, who fancies himself educated, should never have read the Book of Job, should be unfamiliar with Isaiah, and should be hardly able to identify those mighty men of valor, Joshua, Gideon, Jephthah, or those most famous of scarlet women, Rahab, Delilah, Bath-sheba, - and should be not only thus abysmally ignorant but should feel no incentive to be otherwise. For this is nothing less than a loss of racial memory, a forgetfulness of our cultural heritage that is as serious in the life of nations as is for the individual the loss of personality attendant upon neurotic disease. - Selected ©

Recommended reading:
Selected Writings by Jeremy Taylor