Hermeneutic Quotes

#1. Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

Paul Ricoeur

#2. [Roland] Barthes turned the thable on the author, saying no only the a book needs a reader to wake it into life, but that in so doing the reader becomes nothing less that the author, who reveals in the book's hermeneutic possibilities, releases them and so becomes its own creator.

Robert Rowland Smith

#3. There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

Paul Ricoeur

#4. According to this hermeneutic, if we follow what the NT says about the relationships between men and women and husbands and wives, we will not be doing the will of God, for the redemptive movement in Scripture means we must go beyond Scripture to discover God's perfect will.

Benjamin Reaoch

#5. Without a shared hermeneutic, authority is meaningless.

Douglas Wilson

#6. (I should mention I attended a Christian elementary school where "my dad's hermeneutic can beat up your dad's hermeneutic" served as legit schoolyard banter.)

Rachel Held Evans

#7. In fact, I believe that theological interpretation runs the risk of jeopardizing what it means to be a responsible biblical hermeneut, by attempting to overlook or negate, whether consciously or not, a biblical hermeneutic.

Stanley E. Porter Jr.

#8. I'm conscious enough that how I'm singing is not my own accent.

James Hunter

#9. My stage name has always been 'Armin van Buuren.' When I really started DJ'ing professionally, I already had a few U.K. hits under my belt under the name 'Armin', so I couldn't really change that anymore.

Armin Van Buuren

#10. We all know that we might go to the Pit floor and search every face and never find one that belongs to us.

Veronica Roth

#11. The credit crunch was based on a climate (the post-Cold War victory party of free-market capitalism), a problem (the sub-prime mortgages), a mistake (the mathematical models of risk) and a failure, that of the regulators.

John Lanchester

#12. You can't keep brilliance; you let it shine, and then you have to let it go.

Stephen Doyle

#13. Seek to establish an environment conducive to study in the home.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#14. You will always pass failure on the way to success.

Mickey Rooney

#15. Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

Madonna Ciccone

#16. There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.

David Ben-Gurion

#17. Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Sholem Asch

#18. America may be the land of the free, but there are definitely more ignorant people there. Most of the population are semi-retarded.

Kurt Cobain

#19. I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Michiel Huisman

#20. In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Bill W.

#21. Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Blythe Danner

#22. If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.

Dan Alatorre