Quotes about Discrepancy
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.
- Lysa TerKeurst
One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.
- Dallas Willard
There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn't be stampeded by either one. There were many interpretations of Scripture and many interpretations of the natural world. Both were created by God, so both must be mutually consistent. Wherever a discrepancy seems to exist, either a scientist or a theologian—maybe both—hasn't been doing his job. Palmer
- Carl Sagan
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
- John Frame
I realized that for all the power inherent in the seat I now occupied, there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.
- Barack Obama
That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.
- Ernest Cline
There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.
- Eugene Peterson
My character on 'The Crazy Ones' is entirely different than Bob Benson. If these guys ran into each other at a bar, I don't think they'd have much to talk about. They're really different guys.
- James Wolk
In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.
- Paul Hoffman
The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.
- Esther Duflo