Quotes about Interpretation
What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.
— Max Lucado
Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.
— William Barclay
If I have not read a book before, it is, to all intents and purposes, new to me, whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
— William Hazlitt
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
— William Howard Taft
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
— William James
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.
— William James
Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.
— Andrew Wommack
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
— St. Augustine
When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
— Billy Sunday
God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
— Harold S. Kushner
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
— Oscar Wilde
The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.
— Reinhard Bonnke