Quotes about Misinterpretation

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7

When researchers try to break down what is happening at Mosaic, far too often they see the skin and miss the heart.

The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited—these are some of Satan's favorite tricks.

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!

The difficulty is that I have no mouth through which I can speak. I can't make myself understood, not in your world, the world of bodies, of tongues and fingers; and most of the time I have no listeners, not on your side of the river. Those of you who may catch the odd whisper, the odd squeak, so easily mistake my words for breezes rustling the dry reeds, for bats at twilight, for bad dreams.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

The simple biggest problem in communication is the illusion that has taken place.

Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a facility of saying things which drove him in the opposite direction to the one she desired. Some minds are wonderful for keeping their bloom in this way, as a patriarchal gold-fish apparently retains to the last its youthful illusion that it can swim in a straight line beyond the encircling glass.

One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.