Quotes about Interpretation
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
— Aristotle
There are two answers to every question - God's answer and everybody else's - and everybody else is wrong when they disagree with him.
— Tony Evans
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
— Mortimer Adler
Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.
— Kevin Hart
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
— Frederick Buechner
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
— Frederick Buechner
The raw material of a myth, like the raw material of a dream, may be something that actually happened once. But myths, like dreams, do not tell us much about that kind of actuality. The creation of man, Adam and Eve, the Tower of Babel, Oedipus—they do not tell us primarily about events. They tell us about ourselves. In popular usage, a myth has come to mean a story that is not true. Historically speaking that may well be so. Humanly speaking, a myth is a story that is always true.
— Frederick Buechner
Facts in our day are not the same as the facts in the time of Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas. But the principles by which these facts are interpreted have not changed, for common sense remains essentially the same throughout the ages.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Freudanism interprets man in terms of sex; Christianity interprets sex in terms of man.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Protestant commentaries, I discovered, were also particularly interesting because Protestants have spent more time on Scripture than most of us.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The people that usually have the most trouble with my books are the ones that pick them apart from a theological point of view.
— Frank Peretti