Quotes about Interpretation
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
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