Quotes about Interpretation
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
— William James
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
— Henri Matisse
The truth of the matter is that inerrancy is simply a way of saying that there are no errors that call into question the truthfulness of Scripture wherever Scripture is making truth claims.
— DA Carson
We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.
— Tim LaHaye
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
— Elie Wiesel
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.
— Henry David Thoreau
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
— John Milton
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain