Quotes About Interpretation

Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

The image I have sketched views Jesus differently: rather than being the exclusive revelation of God, he is one of many mediators of the sacred.

How do I define God? I don't.... People who find such conceptions important for themselves have every right to frame them as they like. Personally, I don't.

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Like a mirror, God appears to be more and more a reflection of whoever it is that happens to be talking about God at the moment.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.

Scripture is something God had 'let be,' and so it is at once God's creation and the creation of the dozens of people and communities and cultures who produced it.

If you thought Stairway to Heaven was a long song, dear god you should listen to it played on a lute.

I don't see how anybody can read the Bible and believe it's the word of God, or believe that it is anything but a barbarous story of a barbarous people.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

The logos of creation, 'And God Said ...' formed the basis of Christian interpretation of the 'Book of Nature.

When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.

We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

A Roman Catholic worships a god who speaks through the Pope, while a Baptist worships a god who does not. They cannot be worshipping the same god.

It is the belief and not the god that counts.

Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.

[Spielberg and I] had a disagreement over what God was....He thought God was Stephen Spielberg, but that thought had never occurred to me.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.