Quotes about Interpretation

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.

A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.

About the injunction of the Apostle Paul that women should keep silent in church? Don't go by one text only.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

The man who speaks with primordial images, speaks with a thousand tongues.

I put the Scriptures above all the sayings of the fathers, angels, men and devils. Here I take my stand.

I have read many Catholic apologists who have tried to explain this away. Many of them are quite technical, whereas the pontiff's words seem simple and clear. I think any fair-minded reader of these words will come away with the idea that this pope believes the "blood of Christ" has redeemed atheists, whether they like it or not.

You say we worship the sun; so do you.

All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written.