Quotes About Interpretation

Looking at art is one way of listening to God.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

My dear, did you just try to prove the existence of God with your cleavage?

The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.

We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.

God speaks in the language you know best - not through your ears, but through your circumstances.

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

I loved playing Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar. I mean you can't do better than playing God!

We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

The world is God's language to us.

Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.