Quotes about Interpretation
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
— Vincent Van Gogh
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
— Rob Bell
There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.
— Deepak Chopra
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
— George Bernard Shaw
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
— JI Packer
For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
— Jim Elliot
Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined.
— Ashley Montagu
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
— Paul Ricoeur
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.
— John Donne