Quotes about Deconstruction
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
- Margaret Atwood
Civilisation once looked to art as the means of passing wisdom from one generation to the next. Writing itself was invented in part to convey the sacred: permanent things deserved a permanent place, hence the hieroglyphs on Egyptian tombs. But a modern civilisation that no longer believes in permanent things, one that accepts no certain narrative of meaning, resorts to deconstruction, not construction.
- Philip Yancey
deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.
- Philip Yancey
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
- George Weigel
I'm working on my own life story. I don't mean I'm putting it together; no, I'm taking it apart.
- Margaret Atwood
In each instance Jesus advocates grace beyond retribution and expectation. He does not advocate passivity but active generosity that deconstructs the system because of the presence of the kingdom. Surrendering one's rights for the good of the other manifests the Jesus Creed and its variant, the Golden Rule
- Scot McKnight
Without some deconstruction, everything becomes idolatrous. The prophets were religious deconstructionists.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
It is often when the ego is most deconstructed that we can hear things anew and begin some honest reconstruction, even if it is only half heard and halfhearted.
- Fr. Richard Rohr