Quotes About Paradox

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the Church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

We are not engaged in a complicated joke disguised as a religion. We are engaged in a religion disguised as a complicated joke.

In the religion of Love the courtesan is a heretic; but the nun is an atheist.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

If Jesus came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing-up.

God doesn't send atheists to Hell -- there's no room with all the Christians down there.

Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.

All the good things a man can do for a woman is against her religion

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things

Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.