Quotes about Interpretation
Every religion, every philosophy, every individual outlook on life tells a story of reality.
— Greg Koukl
It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.
— Henry Reed
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
— John Milton
Life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.
— John Milton
One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.
— John Piper
We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.
— John Piper
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
— John Updike
The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.
— Ellen White
The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.
— Ellen White
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Ask anyone what she means when she says 'God' and chances are that you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor