Quotes about Interpretation
There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.
— Francis Schaeffer
In the acting game, you spend a long time fighting against what the director perceives you to be. And half the time the directors don't know.
— Peter Mullan
Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.
— Tony Campolo
Like most Christians, I believe the Genesis account of creation is a description of six different stages of creation, each of which may have taken eons of time.
— Tony Campolo
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
— Mark Twain
It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
— Mark Twain
Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles
— Mark Twain
My works are like water. The works of the great masters are like wine. But everyone drinks water. - From Mark Twain's Notebook, 1885
— Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
— Mark Twain
I know grammar by ear only, not by note, not by the rules.
— Mark Twain
But how should I know whether they were boys or girls?" "Goodness sakes, mars Clay, don't de Good Book say? 'Sides, don't it call 'em de HE-brew chil'en? If dey was gals wouldn't dey be de SHE-brew chil'en? Some people dat kin read don't 'pear to take no notice when dey do read.
— Mark Twain
it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.
— Mark Twain