Quotes about Interpretation
For when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.
— John Calvin
When Calvin protested against allegorizing, he was protesting not against finding a spiritual meaning in a passage, but against finding one that was not there.
— John Calvin
What is said of the law applies to the whole of Scripture: when it is not directed toward Christ as its one aim, it is tortured badly and twisted.
— John Calvin
Whenever God revealed himself to be seen by the fathers, he never appeared as he is in himself but as he could be understood by human minds.
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
If there was no other proof of the infinite patience of God, a very good one could be found in His toleration of the pictures that are painted of Him.
— Thomas Merton
And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.
— Lee Ann Womack
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
— Ernest Hemingway
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
— George Bernard Shaw
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
— Milan Kundera
I would just as soon listen to a gangster lecture on honesty as watch Hollywood portray the Bible.
— Vance Havner