Quotes about Interpretation

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.

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.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

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.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

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.

Art is the signature of man.