Quotes about Misrepresentation

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.

Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

Hence the German proverb: "All mischief begins in the name of God.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.

have had to come to grips with the fact that people have lied and will lie about me; they will rip a few sentences out of context, twist a few passages, and make me sound like I believe something I don't because they need something to be angry about and oppose.

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.

Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.