Quotes about Interpretation

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.

One should never tie his faith to how old the earth is.

When a scientist says he believes the Bible--that doesnt give me anymore more faith in the Bible that gives me more faith in the scientist.

We may assume that we are in control of our responses to the world, but that's far from the case. If two people can see the same thing and have opposite reactions, their responses are controlling them, not the other way around.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.

Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.

That we affix no sense unto any obscure or difficult passage of Scripture but what is materially true and consonant unto other express and plain testimonies.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.