Quotes About Interpretation

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

A Christian will say... "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks liked He rushed it.

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

Many people think that the Bible is the authentic word of God and they worship the Bible, making it an idol.

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

Sacred scripture is like a mirror in which we see God, although each in a different way.

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

Only God and I knew what I meant when I wrote it, now only God knows

Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

God: a gaseous vertebrate.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

I thought, 'My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.'

We created god in our own image and likeness!