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Quotes About Paradox

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
~ Martin Luther
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
~ Albrecht Durer
It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich, poor.
~ Vinoba Bhave
Thank God I'm an atheist.
~ Luis Bunuel
God invented concubinage, satan marriage.
~ Francis Picabia
Thank God, I am still an atheist.
~ Luis Bunuel
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
~ Richard Rohr
O God, since thou made Zhou Yu, why did thou also create Zhuge Liang?
~ Zhou Yu
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
~ Wilhelm Reich
God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.
~ Raimon Panikkar
If I say that God is good, that is not true. God is not good. I am good, and if I say that God is wise, that is not true. I am wiser than he is.
~ Meister Eckhart
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
~ Frederick Buechner
If God can do anything he can make a stone so heavy that even he can't lift it. Then there is something God cannot do, he cannot lift the stone. Therefore God does not exist.
~ Lucretius
I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.
~ Kay Warren
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
~ C. S. Lewis
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
~ Voltaire
I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.
~ Martin Sheen
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes.
~ Rumi
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
~ H. L. Mencken
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
~ C.S. Lewis
Either a beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.
~ Charles Bukowski
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky