Quotes About Paradox

These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.

Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

Be careful with your faith !It could make you see the good side of hell on earth.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

doubt and faith do not exist in the same person at the same time

It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.

Every coin has two sides, just like most people have two faces.

Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!

There is always some kind of misery when you are happy and always some kind of happiness even when you are miserable

In this game we are both players, so there is no game. There is nothing to gain, and there is nothing to lose... yet somehow I feel as if I have lost.

Im pretty, but I'm not beautiful. I sin, but I'm not the devil. I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog; who ate flesh in Lent.

It is life. It makes us laugh an hour, and it laughs at us another.

We are all born old, we grow young and younger each time we seem to be growing old and older. We live our lives reversely contrary to what it seems to be

Not every good thing brings you happiness. Not every bad thing brings you sorrow.

The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others.

A bitter paradox, I thought: to keep his son he had to lose him.

I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.

Don't you know?" she had said. "The gods love their monsters.