Quotes About Interpreting The Bible

#1. The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers.

Michael S. Heiser

#2. The business of reading and interpreting the Bible in South Afria is a tricky one! The Bible is everywhere and in the hands of many, including the pain inflictors. ~ Mogomme Alpheus Masoga

Gerald O. West

#3. I know for a fact that a lot of my Christian friends have thoughtful reasons for interpreting the Bible the way they do and that the phrase "pick and choose" sounds far too arbitrary to describe the attentiveness and concern with which they approach the text.

Rachel Held Evans

#4. I've often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently.

Howard Barker

#5. American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

Kim Dae-jung

#6. I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses.

Eli Roth

#7. The less you take from the land, the less you owe in return.

Marlo Morgan

#8. Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

E. Stanley Jones

#9. I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

Steven Price

#10. It's got a lot more room for nuance and an assumption that people have started from the beginning. 'Bloodline' ends up being like a really good novel.

Ben Mendelsohn

#11. Don't stretch a season out to a lifetime. Know when to let go.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#12. Now that NASA can talk to me, they won't shut the hell up.

Andy Weir

#13. Of the 60 movies I wrote, more than half were written in two weeks or less.

Ben Hecht

#14. Two steps forward three steps backwards how would u get there?_

Rain

#15. Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart:
How to Know for Sure You Are Saved

J.D. Greear

#16. Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

Michael Cudlitz

#17. Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

#18. In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.

Toni Morrison

#19. I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of.

Alberto Juantorena