Bandages Quote by Dennis Potter Download Open image “Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.” — Dennis Potter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bandages Inspirational Love Religion Wounds
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Religion is like a knife; in the hands of a surgeon, it heals, but in the hands of a murderer, it kills.” — Luke Gracias Copy Share Image
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
“Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.” — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins… — Mat McNerney Copy Share Image
True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of thinking that… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds. — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The church ... is not just to bandage the victims under the wheel, but to put a spoke in the wheel itself. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
A Polish man had a bandage on each ear. What happened? "I was ironing, and the phone rang!" "What about the other ear?" "Had… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal. — Bill Haywood Copy Share Image
One reads the papers as one wants to with a bandage over one's eyes without trying to understand the facts, listening to the soothing… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
A man turns to the guy next to him who's covered in bandages from head to toe and asks "What happened?". "I fell through… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
