Quotes about Interpretation

You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

I think art is communication. To that extent, it can be the words between the words. It has a possibility of communicating something more than people can do with prose or just talking.

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

There is a fundamental syntactical distinction between saying "we question the Bible" and "the Bible questions us.

Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.