Quotes about Interpretation
Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.
— Andy Stanley
Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
— Oswald Chambers
God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.
— Oswald Chambers
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
— Scot McKnight
We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.
— Vicky Beeching
The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.
— Alistair Begg
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
— Robert Frost
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
— Oswald Chambers
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
— Anne Lamott
No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
— Charles Spurgeon
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
— DA Carson
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
— Timothy Keller