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Quotes about Interpretation

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
— Ayn Rand
Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.
— Donald Trump
Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.
— Andy Andrews
The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.
— Peter Lillback
If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.
— Peter Kreeft
Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.
— Peter Kreeft
It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.
— Peter Kreeft
Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And
— Peter Kreeft
Paul wrote,"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God."That means that Christians, who have the Spirit of God living within them, have an inward interpreter who helps them to understand what the Bible means.
— David Jeremiah
Using only nonnarrative portions of the Bible to interpret narrative is not only disrespectful to the narrative portions but also suggests a misguided approach to nonnarrative parts of the Bible.
— Craig Keener
The fact that our traditional method of extracting doctrine from Scripture does not work well on narrative does not mean that Bible stories do not send clear messages. Instead, it suggests that the way we apply our traditional method of interpretation is inadequate because we are ignoring too much of God's Word.
— Craig Keener
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
— DH Lawrence