Quotes about Interpretation

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

the Old Testament must always be read in light of the New. I never read such Old Testament texts without immediately asking, "Does the New Testament shed additional light on how I am to understand the nature of such promises and their recipients?

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws or what the Constitution may or may not say.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

But don't you know that girls never think of what they are talking about, or rather never talk of what they are thinking about? And they have always ten times more to say to the man they don't care for, than to him they do.

The resurrection is our awakening from the dream, our return to right-mindedness, and thus our deliverance from hell. ... We recognized how avidly we drill the nails into our own hands and feet holding on to earthly interpretation of things when a choice to do otherwise would release us and make us happy.

In asking the Holy Spirit to help us, we are expressing our willingness to perceive a situation differently. We give up our own interpretations and opinions, and ask that they be replaced by His.