Quotes about Interpretation
The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.
— Alistair Begg
Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows
— Robert Frost
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
— Oswald Chambers
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
— Anne Lamott
No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
— Charles Spurgeon
At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.
— DA Carson
If we pick out which parts of the Bible we dislike, we actually have a god we've created. How can that god ever call you out on anything?
— Timothy Keller
To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.
— Vincent Van Gogh
God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.
— Rob Bell
There are as many versions of God as there are people in the world.
— Deepak Chopra
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
— George Bernard Shaw
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.
— JI Packer