Quotes about Interpretation
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
— John Milton
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
— Madeleine L'Engle
No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.
— Mark Twain
Instead of making Christianity a vehicle of truth, you make truth only a horse for Christianity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.
— Todd Burpo
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
— William Faulkner
Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.
— William Saroyan
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
— Joel Osteen
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
— Maya Angelou