Quotes about Interpretation
Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.
— JC Ryle
Theology is an attempt to explain a subject by men who do not understand it. The intent is not to tell the truth but to satisfy the questioner.
— Elbert Hubbard
If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.
— Charles Spurgeon
The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.
— Charles Spurgeon
The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
— GK Chesterton
Art is the signature of man.
— GK Chesterton
A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He does not write at all whose poems no man reads
— Marcus Aurelius
Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.
— Mark Twain
S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?
— Mark Twain
The Bible is God's Word given in man's language
— Max Lucado