The scriptures are clear, you just choose to use your own private interpretation. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
There really is no such thing as private interpretation; what we do have, and must preserve, is the right of personal conviction. (religion-online.org)
We have seen that at one period a rigid scheme of interpretation tended to blanket the direct impact of the Bible upon the mind; and at another period the license of private interpretation threatened to befog it in a cloud of individual predilections. (religion-online.org)