Quotes about Interpretation
Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of 14 and 27 differs from the liberal view
— Carl Sagan
he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".
— Terry Jones
The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
— Karl Barth
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.
— Karl Rahner
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.
— Kate Summerscale
Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.
— GC Berkouwer
Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.
— GC Berkouwer
We must warn against an incorrect conception of theology, a conception which considers it possible to discuss Holy Scripture apart from a personal relationship of belief in it, as though that alone would constitute true 'objectivity'.
— GC Berkouwer
There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
— GK Chesterton
The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
— GK Chesterton