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Quotes About Paradox

God bless... God damn.
~ James Thurber
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
~ Randy Alcorn
The impotence of God is infinite.
~ Anatole France
If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.
~ Bill Hicks
The Pope doesn't believe in God; Did you ever see a conjurer who believed in Magic ?
~ Coluche
We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
~ Frank Wedekind
If God is all powerful, can He make a stone so big that He Himself can't lift it?
~ George Carlin
It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist
~ Gianni Vattimo
Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
~ Ivan Turgenev
To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul's paradox of love.
~ A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God
~ Timothy Keller
If we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
~ Buddy Wakefield
Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.
~ C. A. Bartol
The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
~ Vance Havner
Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
~ George MacDonald
The existence of God is the ultimate paradox.
~ Kedar Joshi
If by any effort of reason I could conceive how God, Who shows so much anger and iniquity, could be merciful and just, there would be no need of faith.
~ Martin Luther
What can we do about God, who makes and then breaks every god-forsaken, beautiful day?
~ Mary Oliver
For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.
~ R. C. Sproul
Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?
~ Richard Dawkins
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
~ Mark Galli
In one breath, I can say that we are God, but in another I have to say that we aren't deities.
~ Alanis Morissette
When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
~ Chogyam Trungpa