"Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises"

-- Dennis Potter

#Mask Quotes #Disguise Quotes #Discourse Quotes

“What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.”

Source : "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.
“Children are so precious.”
“The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.”
“Shall it any longer be said that a science [geology], which unfolds such abundant evidence of the Being and Attributes of God, can reasonably be viewed in any other light than as the efficient Auxiliary and Handmaid of Religion?”

Source : William Buckland (1836). “Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural Theology”, p.593
“Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.”

Source : Mike Yaconelli (2009). “Messy Spirituality”, p.36, Harper Collins
“Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.”
“No one comes from the earth like grass. We come like trees. We all have roots.”
“Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.”

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