Quotes about Interpretation
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
Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party.
— CS Lewis
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
— Pope John Paul II
We should throw the Epistle of James out of this school.
— Martin Luther
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
— Martin Luther
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
— Eugene Peterson
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'
— Leonard Ravenhill