Quotes About Interpretation

God is just another artist, like me.

Majoring in religion, listening to TV evangelists interpret the scriptures and dictate my offerings-I found my God inside myself-in every moment and piece of matter. Everything is animate.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

It is best not to study too much on who gets what they deserve. It can lead to an overly complicated interpretation of God's personal attributes.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

At the end of the day, in brief summary: inerrancy is interested in the truthfulness of Scripture and it is a powerful way forcing people to think about that reliability that is God-given.

They say that God is in the details. Then again, they also say that the Devil is in the details. Boy, talk about awkward.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Moses: God or crowd control?!?

In the land of wild rivers, a calm river becomes either a god or a devil!

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.