Quotes about Interpretation
One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.
— John Piper
We must train our people that it is not irreverent to see difficulties in the biblical text and to think hard about how they can be resolved.
— John Piper
The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.
— Ellen White
The student of the word should not make his opinions a center around which truth is to revolve. He should not search for the purpose of finding texts of Scripture that he can construe to prove his theories, for this is wresting the Scriptures to his own destruction.
— Ellen White
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
— Ellen Glasgow
We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light. —Hildegard of Bingen
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Ask anyone what she means when she says 'God' and chances are that you will learn a lot more about that person than you will learn about God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because the words did not come straight off the page. They percolated up through the silt and gravel of real people's lives so that the meaning in them was fluid, not fixed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is worrisome, not only because he is reading a translation from the original Hebrew or Greek that has already involved a great deal of interpretation, but also because it is such a short distance between believing you possess an error-free message from God and believing that you are an error-free messenger of God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is one of the reasons why I remain a devoted student of the Bible: because what it says is so often not what I have been taught it says, or what I think it says, or what I want it to say.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The meaning we give to what happens in our lives is our final, inviolable freedom.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In a lot of ways, I feel like I'm just taking the music that comes to me and trying to make it as beautiful as I can. You can't really predict or control how people will receive that music.
— Kamasi Washington