Quotes about Interpretation
What we look for is what we will see, what we see determines our perspective, and our perspective determines our reality.
— Lysa TerKeurst
But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
— John Eldredge
We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed.
— John Eldredge
The father is to speak into his son's heart deep affirmation. Yes, you do. You have what it takes. He needs a hundred experiences that will help him get there, and he is wounded and emasculated when he is kept from those experiences, or left on his own to interpret them, or when no one is there to help him in his journey toward initiation.
— John Eldredge
And this one thing at least is certain; whatever history teaches, whatever it omits, whatever it exaggerates or extenuates, whatever it says and unsays, at least the Christianity of history is not Protestantism. If ever there were a safe truth, it is this.
— John Henry Newman
We must determine whether on the one hand Christianity is still to represent to us a definite teaching from above, or whether on the other its utterances have been from time to time so strangely at variance, that we are necessarily thrown back on our own judgment individually to determine, what the revelation of God is, or rather if in fact there is, or has been, any revelation at all.
— John Henry Newman
Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!
— John Lennon
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
I do not deal with the text [of the Bible] scientifically. I read it, I'm interested in its layers of meaning, but my relation to it is much more an emotional one.
— Elie Wiesel
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
— CS Lewis
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.
— Vance Havner