Quotes about Interpretation

The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a way to read Scripture which is imaginative, interpretive.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

If you come at the Bible as if it's a document of encyclopedic information, you've pretty much killed any kind of life change in a seeker and unbeliever.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The student is to read history actively not passively.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas, sometimes with chisel on stone, sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music, but clearest and most permanent, in words.