Faithful Interpretation Quotes

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same; but the medical practice changes...The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it…

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

If Catholic moral doctrines have changed, how can the church still claim to preach the same message Jesus and his disciples did?

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

It's a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

If the Apostles and the writers of the gospels were to enjoy a brief stay on earth and return to the company of men, they would be astonished at how many different analyses and approaches were being used to interpret their books, and how many bizarre constructions had been assembled from the trivial notions of the sophists.

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst.

The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

In the same way 'Lord of the Rings' was an interpretation of the book, 'The Hobbit' is being treated the same way. It will be faithfully represented with a fresh interpretation.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

The Bible is our fire-guard. Some read God's Word critically but the Word is their critic and by their own attitude towards the Word they condemn themselves.

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also. If the Holy Ghost guides us at all, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them.

No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a battle-torn planet. But you treat it as though it is nothing more than a piece of literature.