Quotes About Interpretation

that "meaning" in these traditions has very little to do with what people find meaningful in their lives.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view.

The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

We are often unable to tell people what they need to know, because they want to know something else, and would therefore only misunderstand what we said.

Nobody knows what anything is; a man can only learn what a thing means!

What if I should look ugly without being bad - look ugly myself because I am making ugly things beautiful? - What then?

To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.

Just as you could form some idea of the nature of a man from the kind of house he built, if he followed his own taste, so you could, without seeing the fairies, tell what any one of them is like, by looking at the flower till you feel that you understand it.

But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant! Not what he pleases, but what he can.

And no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in (a) human heart which exists in that heart alone—which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.

The Heart And no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in (a) human heart which exists in that heart alone—which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.

What did you mean by speaking so about the Ash? She rose and looked out of the little window

For repose is not the end of education; its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awaking from the dead, a ceaseless questioning of the past for the interpretation of the future, an urging on of the motions of life, which had better far be accelerated into fever, than retarded into lethargy.

Instead of automatically blaming the person who does not believe in God, we should ask first if his notion of God is a God that ought to be believed in.

We answer: To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.

Winna ye be gaein' awa', to write buiks, an' gar fowk fin' oot what's the maitter wi' them?

Until you repent and believe afresh, believe in a nobler Christ, namely the Christ revealed by himself, and not the muffled form of something vaguely human and certainly not all divine, which the false interpretations of men have substituted for him, you will be, as, I repeat, you are, the main reason why faith is so scanty in the earth, and the enemy comes in like a flood.

The greatest obscuration of the words of the Lord, as of all true teachers, comes from those who give themselves to interpret rather than do them. Theologians have done more to hide the gospel of Christ than any of its adversaries.

alas, how little can language say without seeming to say something wrong!

Well, papa, I sometimes wish you wouldn't explain things so much. I seem to understand you all the time you are preaching, but when I try the text afterwards by myself, I can't make anything of it, and I've forgotten every word you said about it. Perhaps that is because you have no right to understand it. I thought all Protestants had a right to understand every word of the Bible, she returned. If they can

For Christianity does not mean what you think or what I think concerning Christ, but what IS OF Christ. My

There are some who, if you propose to examine into anything, immediately set you down as an unbeliever in that thing. A man who wants to find out what the Bible really means, is, by those who do not believe in it a tenth part as much as he, set down as an unbeliever in the Bible; whereas it is a proof of the very strongest probability to the contrary.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.