Quotes about Commentary

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

The Sermon on the Mount is the moral portrait of Jesus' own people. Because this portrait doesn't square with the church, this Sermon turns from instruction to indictment. To those ends—both instruction and indictment—this commentary has been written with the simple goal that God will use this book to lead us to become in real life the portrait Jesus sketched in the Sermon.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.

Basically, the first half of life is writing the text, and the second half is writing the commentary on that text.

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.