Quotes About Demystification

#1. Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview.

Timothy Keller

#2. There was that last blast of Westerns that came out in the Seventies, those Vietnam/Watergate Westerns where everything was about demystification. And I like that about those movies.

Quentin Tarantino

#3. Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery ... a topic that often leaves even the most sophisticated thinkers tongue-tied and confused. And, as with all of the earlier mysteries, there are many who insist - and hope - that there will never be a demystification of consciousness.

Daniel Dennett

#4. Your average person wouldn't recognize a sublime entity if it attempted to fist fuck them while waiting in line for the next Batman sequel.

Janeane Garofalo

#5. He didn't care that he'd be punished. Punishments always came to an end eventually. [Felix]

Karen Maitland

#6. You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

Robert Ludlum

#7. I do not ever want to be a huge star.

Tuesday Weld

#8. Integrity is the key to understanding legal practice. Law's empire is defined by attitude, not territory or power or process.

Ronald Dworkin

#9. The hundred flavors of rare dainties Are no more once you've eaten your fill. You may accumulate private savings But not in your stomach private hoardings!

Wu Cheng'en

#10. I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

Hilary Mantel

#11. Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Max Weber

#12. A blush of roses on my face. [ ... ] I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage.

Tahereh Mafi

#13. What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man ... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Benny Hinn

#14. Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins; only He can convince them of the truth of the Gospel.

Billy Graham

#15. I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Dana Spiotta