Quotes About Interpretation

What does salmon have to do with the Warriors?" I asked. Sydney shot me a wry look. "Psalms, not salon. And I don't know the connection.

A dream doesn't mean anything. I dreamed the other night that I went riding on a dinosaur.

Adrian was right that the sun I'd just described wasn't the design that had been the on the sword or brochure. Both of those had used an ancient symbol. The one in my vision was a more modern adaption-and this wasn't the first time I'd seen it. The sun in my vision was an exact match for Trey's tattoo.

Interpretar sin aplicar es lo mismo que abortar!»

algunos maestros de la Biblia son capaces de tomar el libro más apasionante del mundo y con él aburrir a las personas hasta las lágrimas.

la meta final de todo estudio bíblico es su aplicación, no su interpretación. En vista de que Dios quiere cambiar nuestra vida por medio de su Palabra, es de suma importancia aprender a aplicar las Escrituras en nuestra vida antes de aprender cualquier otro método de estudio bíblico.

The degree to which language exactly mirrors reality is debatable.

What I mean and what I say is two different things, the BFG announced rather grandly.

I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by Mexicans.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.

So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand, Matilda said to her. 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same. The way he tells it I feel I am right there on the spot watching it all happen.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that,' Mrs Phelps said . 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

I cannot be helping it if I sometimes is saying things a little squiggly. I

Mr Hemingway says a lot of things I don't understand,' Matilda said, 'Especially about men and women. But I loved it all the same.' 'A fine writer will always make you feel that', Mrs Phelps said. 'And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

because God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

To fully appreciate the Bible, you have to let it be what it is.

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.

When people stepped forward and said, "You have heard it interpreted this way, but I tell you it really means this," it was progressive for their day. They were making new claims about what it means to be true to the Bible. What is accepted today as tradition was at one point in time a break from tradition.

But sometimes when I hear people quote the Bible, I just want to throw up.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god either. So when we hear that a certain person has "rejected Christ," we should first ask, "Which Christ?

The point of the Abraham-and-Isaac story isn't that you should sacrifice your kid but that you can leave behind any notion of a god who demands that you sacrifice your kid.

What's the Best Question to Ask When You're Reading the Bible? Why did people find this important to write down?...Why did people write this down? What was going on in their world that this was important to them? Why did they feel the need to put words to this? Start with that question. Start with those questions. And see what happens.

You dance with the Bible, but you also interrogate it. You challenge it, question it, poke it, probe it. You let it get under your skin. We read it, and we let it read us, and then we turn the gem, again, and again, and again, seeing something new over and over and over again . . .