Quotes About Interpretation

Still, he's Emory. He doesn't have to walk her home, especially considering how snitty she was to him. He didn't have to come in and stop her cruelty to Fay, or watch over her as he has evidently been continuing to do, drawing those pictures on the Reeses' sidewalk. She knew the pictures were for her and her children. She and Emory did not always spell things out, but she knew, when he drew pictures, what they meant.

Only historians tell you what they thought. Research workers stick to what they did.

That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like a peepshow; with two-dimensional figures against a distant background.

Ruth puts in all the tiddley bits and the expression and doesn't mind how many wrong notes she strikes, but with Jane it is accuracy or nothing. I don't know which Chopin would have hated more," Eleanor said, folding bread and butter into a thickness that would match her appetite.

You gotta know what the Bible says before you can understand what it means.

The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.

Your frame is a mental structure that determines how you see the universe. The viewpoint and fundamental meaning of a conversation are its frames."

Knowing and believing are two different things.

This could be heaven or this could be hell'?" "A lot will depend on the mattress.

You say potato, I say potahto." "I say rice pilaf. I say you're trying to distract me with talk of side dishes.

Define history. Was it the sequence of factual past events, the stories about the factual sequence of past events, or the interpretation of the stories about past events?

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

The human mind defines things in relation to one another—without light the notion of darkness would be unintelligible

She had questions, of course, so I gave her my hands and answered them, interpreting what both of us were saying for Henry as I signed, so that instead of thinking in English or ASL, I thought between them.

eisegetical;

All who read us are read.

Same church, different assumptions.

If you want to tell the truth, write fiction

But the Septuagint translated ason as exeikonismenon, meaning a fetus already "fully formed.

history is not what happened in the past, but the best story we can tell with the available material

Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilization which they have represented.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.