Quotes About Interpretation

All poets and story tellers alive today make a single brotherhood; they are engaged in a single work, picturing our human life. Whoever pictures life as he sees it, reassembles in his own way the details of existence which affect him deeply, and so creates a spiritual world of his own.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Even a cursory reading of the Bible is sufficient to recognize that the Bible is a treasury replete with a wide variety of literary styles, ranging from poetry and psalms to historical narratives, didactic epistles, and apocalyptic revelations. To dogmatically assert that the Bible was written in parables and that those who read it literally must be "idiots" is a serious misunderstanding of the literal principle of biblical interpretation.

Meow is like aloha — it can mean anything.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

It is true that storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it, that it brings about consent and reconciliation with things as they really are, and that we may even trust it to contain eventually by implication that last word which we expect from the "day of judgment."

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

When I hear the word "culture"… I reach for my pistol.

Das, was wirklich ist, kann man mit Wörtern ohnehin immer nur annähernd beschreiben; ein Wort ist eben nie genau die Sache selber.

Tap?naklar?n ihtiÅŸam? ve Tanr? tasvirlerinin sanat?, 'humus' tabakas?ndan yukar?ya besleyici bir g?da ta??yabilecek olan 'kökler' fikrine izin vermez. Bu g?da tam da binalar üzerine bina, tasvirler üzerine tasvir ederek çekildiÄŸi düÅŸünülen s?n?rlar?n d???nda b?rak?land?r.

So when one person has said 'Moses thought what I say,' and another 'No, what I say,' I think it more religious in spirit to say 'Why not rather say both, if both are true?' And if anyone sees a third or fourth and a further truth in these words, why not believe that Moses discerned all these things? For through him the one God has tempered the sacred books to the interpretation of many, who could come to see a diversity of truths.

Everything you look at can be turned into a story ... you can make a tale of everything you touch.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Poetska re? je jednako kao i filozofska u stanju da stoji i da se u odvojenosti "teksta" u kome se artikuliše iskaže sa sopstvenim autoritetom. "Filozofija i poezija

Through a painting, we can see the whole world.

It is simpler to redefine the meaning of "equal.

I have always believed that it is the artist who creates a work, but a society that turns it into a work of art. - Johannes Cladders

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.

In this sense, the methodological form that comes into play here is ultimately quite simple: Scripture is interpreted by Scripture. Scripture interprets itself. Attentive listening to Scripture's own internal self-interpretation is very characteristic of Redemptoris Mater.

Maximus has been called unscriptural, but Scripture is the background and the presupposition for all that he does, to a wholly different degree than in the one-sided scholastic theology or spiritual works of the sixth century. The Confessor's first major work is his set of answers to the questions of his friend Thalassius on passages in the Holy Scriptures.42 Maximus offers these answers from the fullness both of the exegetical and spiritual tradition and of his own personal meditation.

The letter kills, it is the Spirit that gives life!" (2 Cor 3:6). You may be sure, reverend sir, that I will never accept some concept from Scripture if I have not really understood its meaning.

Freud büyük bir insan. Ama büyük bir insan?n yar?m yamalak anla??lmas? da çok tehlikelidir.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.