Quotes about Misinterpretation
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
When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
- Winston Churchill
They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7
- Beth Moore
When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.
- Erwin McManus
The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited—these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.
- Billy Graham
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
- AW Pink
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
- Pope Benedict XVI
The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can't make myself understood, not in your world, the world of bodies, of tongues and fingers; and most of the time I have no listeners, not on your side of the river. Those of you who may catch the odd whisper, the odd squeak, so easily mistake my words for breezes rustling the dry reeds, for bats at twilight, for bad dreams.
- Margaret Atwood
By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!
- Watchman Nee
The simple biggest problem in communication is the illusion that has taken place.
- George Bernard Shaw