Quotes About Paradox

Everything has good and bad.

God does things that fly completely in the face of what we've all been taught that He is supposed to do and every time He does this, we all just say, 'Oh, well, I guess there must be some good reason why He did that.'

It's both difficult and hard at the same time to deal with them, and there's hardly any reason for it.

We are created by being destroyed.

Which is more puzzling, the existence of suffering or its frequent absence?

WE LIVE IN A CULTURAL CLIMATE QUICK TO ACCEPT THE WORST, DENY the best. And we often have difficulty, unlike Dickens, in being sure about how to define moral indicators, especially in complicated human matters. To Dickens, that came easily. He unhesitatingly believed in absolute truths, both moral and cosmological, though, paradoxically, opposite absolutes often co-exist, as in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Nada siempre es más sencillo que algo. Más triste también, pero más sencillo.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...

the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present

To say that I was born again, to use that traditional phrase, is to say too much because I remained in most ways as self-centered and squeamish after the fact as I was before, and God knows remain so still. And in another way to say that I was born again is to say too little because there have been more than a few such moments since, times when from beyond time something too precious to tell has glinted in the dusk, always just out of reach, like fireflies.

Es extremadamente listo, considerando lo estúpido que es.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.

I fear you close by; I love you far away.

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.

And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth.

It is disgraceful for a philosopher to say: the good and the beautiful are one; if he adds 'also the true', one ought to beat him. Truth is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Everything straight lies,' murmured the dwarf disdainfully. 'All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle.

Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness.

How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all 'good things'!

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.