Quotes about Misinterpretation
All day long they twist my words; all their thoughts are on my demise.
— Psalm 56:5
This is why Jesus challenged the notion that more evidence would have generated more faith. George Macdonald said years ago that to give truth to him who does not love the truth is to only give more reasons for misinterpretation.
— Ravi Zacharias
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
— Mark Twain
Yes, the Bible is our sword. It's our best offense, our best defense. But when we misinterpret the truth, we're abusing the Bible.
— Mark Batterson
If people are taught wrong, raised wrong, or haven't taken the Bible seriously enough, then they can go into academic error, emotional error, psychological error.
— Tony Evans
But they did not understand the statement He was making to them.
— Luke 2:50
Let us never forget that truth, distorted and exaggerated, can become the mother of the most dangerous heresies.
— JC Ryle
Whenever anyone tells you that coronavirus means that God is calling people—perhaps you!—to repent, tell them to read Job. The whole point is that that is not the point.
— NT Wright
The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.
— Scot McKnight
When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
— Samuel Johnson
Some Jews and Muslims accuse Christians of being idolatrous for believing in the Trinity. My response to both groups is that they fundamentally misunderstand the Christian understanding of the Trinity.
— Miroslav Volf
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
— AW Pink