Quotes about Interpretation

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited.

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in every thing. What more I have to say is short, And you must kindly take it: It is no tale; but, should you think, Perhaps a tale you'll make it.

The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

Literality in satire is the condemnation by quotation.

Men are wrong to think that the blind cannot see. The truth is that they see, but differently. I would even say that they see something other.

The only wrong way to read the Bible is to not read it at all.