Quotes about Interpretation

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing

Every scripture is to be interpreted by the same spirit which gave it forth,—is the fundamental law of criticism.

We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I'd rather be a good one. Wouldn't you?

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

New ideas are rightly suspect because they are often heretical. However, when biblical truths have been long neglected or ignored, attempts to present them may sound far-fetched. They may appear to be adding to or misinterpreting Scripture, when in fact they are simply portraying what Scripture has said all along but we've failed to grasp.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

If you cannot understand me in my speech, how can you understand me in my silence?

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.

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

My definition of mythology is "other people's religion," which suggests that ours must be something else. My definition of religion, then, is "misunderstood mythology"—and the misunderstanding consists in mistaking the symbol for the reference.

You must understand that each religion is a kind of software that has its own set of signals and will work.

Corinthians 14:15