Quotes about Interpretation
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
— St. Jerome
The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.
— Cicero
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
— Mark Twain
To believe that God speaks only through the Bible is to handcuff the God of the Bible as the Bible has revealed Him to us. Yes, Scripture provides our checks and balances.
— Mark Batterson
Each of us has an explanatory style... And our explanation is more important than the experience itself. In the words of Aldous Huxley, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
— Mark Batterson
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
We don't see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.
— Mark Batterson
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.
— Mark Twain
When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
— William Faulkner
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
— Dennis Prager
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.
— William Faulkner