Quotes About Interpretation

A person without a rich and complex past is like an infant, who has no ability to interpret any text.

We must allow, therefore, that God speaks in a way that meshes with the surrounding context, and also that he can say what he wishes to say, distinct from the context.

Because the Bible is a theological book, it is a book of wrestlings, not a book of answers. In each age the people have to struggle to hear the word of the Lord for their time, and sometimes their hearing is keener than at other times.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

Circumstances can be neither positive or negative; there are neutral. Only by your thinking do you attribute circumstances either positive or negative.

Are angels supposed to call humans Commies?

Most people picture my dog with three heads, but that is wrong, wrong, wrong. He is way cooler than that. Some poets claimed he had fifty heads and some poets called him the "hundred-headed" beast. Others described him with not only multiple heads, but with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and lion's paws. Whatever. I call him awesome.

The house looked like some gay architect had gotten drunk and watched Gone with the Wind.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Those who use the Bible as a reference for moral behavior are simply cherry-picking those teachings, such as the Golden Rule, that they have independently decided are moral for other reasons, while ignoring those teachings with which they disagree.

The so-called mysteries of quantum mechanics are in its philosophical interpretation, not in its mathematics.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is.

I have always striven to fix beauty in wood, stone, glass or pottery, in oil or watercolor by using whatever seemed fittest for the expression of beauty, that has been my creed.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.