Quotes about Interpretation

The professional interpreter is a minor miracle—far better

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, every fragrant flower, every ray of the warm sun, every taste that touched her tongue told her that there was a God who created all things. Jodie Foster shouldn't therefore be surprised that people are surprised that she's an atheist.

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

What you see is what it is!

When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read history books, you are reading about events, but the Bible is not an event. So, when you are reading the Holy Spirit, you are supposed to be carried along by it.

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly.

If you want to interpret well and confidently, set Christ before you, for He is the man to whom it all applies, every bit of it.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.