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Quotes About Contradiction

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
God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.
~ Adam Nicolson
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.
~ Countee Cullen
Atheists think the devil is just a silly as God is.
~ Hemant Mehta
I am an atheist, thanks be to God.
~ Luis Bunuel
I yield to nobody in my admiration for God, but he's no good in bed.
~ Ariana Franklin
These people´s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible´s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all.
~ Mark Twain
If God came to save the world, why are so many of His professed followers intent on damning it?
~ Richard Paul Evans
Thank you God for making me an atheist.
~ Ricky Gervais
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
~ David Platt
blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.
~ Denise Levertov
Abraxas was the god who was both god and devil.
~ Hermann Hesse
I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.
~ Jeff Bridges
In hell, the Devil is God.
~ Kedar Joshi
I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.
~ Tim McGraw
Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
~ Joseph Heller
Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.
~ Demosthenes
The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.
~ Stanley Fish
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
~ Don Herold
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
~ John Lothrop Motley
Good taste is always bad.
~ Poul Henningsen
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
~ Philip James Bailey