Quotes about Interpretation

Guess what? Your god is you. You just made him up. Your god is fake, because you can't edit out the parts of the Bible you don't like. If you treat the Word of God like a buffet line and say, "I will take this aspect of God, but I don't like that one," then you will end up with a god of your own making. It won't be the God of the Bible. And that god of yours won't be able to save you in the final day, because it isn't real.

If the interpreters are willing to say what the people have to say about their struggle and the reality of Jesus in the fight for freedom, and proceed to develop their tools of critical analysis in the light of their identification with the goals and aspirations of the people, then and only then are they prepared to ask the right questions and hear the right answers.

Disbelieve hell, and you unscrew, unsettle, and unpin everything in Scripture.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, not the mirror.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.-The Word of God exists in something else.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are of themselves evidences that the human language, whether in speech or in print, cannot be the vehicle of the word of God. The word of God exists in something else.

love 'thinketh no evil.' 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another's words.

A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

Junk is in the eyes of the beholder. Some look, but others see.