Quotes about Interpretation

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

In Re-framing, you interpret the event in a positive way. You change your language . Instead if defining it as a problem you re-frame it as a situation. A problem is something that is upsetting and stressful. A situation is something that you simply deal with.

Most of your emotions, positive or negative, are determined by how you talk to yourself on a minute-to-minute basis. It is not what happens to you but the way that you interpret the things that are happening to you that determines how you feel.

Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view

he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

The people who wrote down the Bible and the people who wrote down the Mahayana sutras were artists. They used images to express their insights.

Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.

The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.

In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.