Quotes about Interpretation

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths.

What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There is no true understanding of any art without some knowledge of its philosophy. Only then does its meaning come clear.

If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.

Preaching means more than handing over a tradition; it is rather the careful and sensitive articulation of what is happening in the community.

People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?