Quotes about Interpretation

As Luke 24 shows, it's possible to read the Bible, study the Bible, and memorize large portions of the Bible, while missing the whole point of the Bible.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

Jesus is Jesus. So, I'm not sure I'd get into the business of making somebody into Jesus. That's just me.

The greatest rule in doing biblical exegesis is that the immediate context of a passage is crucial in determining the meaning of that passage.

If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.

Perhaps even atheism versus theism is an example of this principle that an apparent either/or can really be a both/and. For I suspect that the God you insist does not exist is probably a God I also insist does not exist; and perhaps the God I maintain does exist is a God you have never denied.

It's just as dangerous and just as heretical to under—do as to over—do what Scripture says.

Chesterton said once that there is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians. And