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Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.
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The quote advises readers to look at both the Bible and the news, but to judge current events through the moral and spiritual principles found in the Bible. It presents the Bible as the main lens for understanding what happens in the world, rather than treating the newspaper as the final guide to meaning or judgment.
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- TIME, “Barth in Retirement” (May 31, 1963)
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