Quotes About Misinterpretation

A sword in a madman's hand, and the word of God in some wicked man's mouth, are used much alike—to hurt only themselves and their best friends with.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

As a result of overly reactive posturing toward an unbelieving world we sometimes breed our own worst understandings of the Bible.

Our own filters and biases cloud our abilities to understand and to communicate effectively. It

Facts just twist the truth around.

Compliance with legitimate authority was also apparent in the strange case of the "rectal ear ache" (Cohen & Davis, 1981). A doctor ordered eardrops for a patient suffering infection in the right ear. On the prescription, the doctor abbreviated "place in right ear" as "place in R ear." Reading the order, the compliant nurse put the required drops in the compliant patient's rectum.

I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.

the mistake of calling an assiette à soupe (soup plate) a soup bowl (bol) because it has sides to hold in soup.

Using one's own sexual mind as an infallible guide for inferring the sexual minds of others is an error.

The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.

I discovered the wife's got asthma. Thank God - I thought she was hissing at me.

God draweth straight lines but we call them crooked.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

How simple our Lord's word is, Love thy neighbor. Just think how that word has been twisted around, just because it's hard to love thy neighbor.

We were looking for a 'good shepherd,' and instead we got a German shepherd.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong.

You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.