Quotes about Misrepresentation
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
— AW Pink
Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!
— Pope Benedict XVI
And this is true; this is how they do it. They take one little word out of what you say, ignore all the rest, and then begin to magnify it all over the world to make you look like what you actually aren't. And I'm very used to that
— Malcolm X
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
— AW Pink
Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.
— Benjamin Disraeli
that corrupted version is presented as something improved or enhanced — when, in fact, it is a "perverted" adaptation of what was originally intended.
— Rick Renner
Most of your statues in churches do not correspond to the picture I have of you. In the statues you are shown very much like a nun, with a rosary in your hand. You are smiling serenely. But nuns have no children. You have. Your true likeness has yet to be depicted.
— Richard Wurmbrand
Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Take a text out of context, and you make it a pretext.
— Ravi Zacharias
Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow.
— Dorothy Sayers
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.
— Bill Johnson