Allegorizing Scripture Quotes & Sayings

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive. — Claire Danes

Don't be afraid to explore the shadows. You might find some hope within the hurt. — Erin Saldin

But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and imaginative form in which they are sometimes couched, would be no less a violation of the canons of evangelical literalism than the allegorizing of the Scholastics was. — J.I. Packer

There is no force on earth greater than the fear jocks have of homosexuals. None. It's like the Jewish fear of the Nazis, except the complete opposite with regard to who is beating the crap out of whom. So I guess it's more like the Nazi fear of the Jews. — Jesse Andrews

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed. — David Travis

The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror. — Claude Bernard