Quotes about Contrast
One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.
— Paul David Tripp
Light and darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being in joyful rhythm.
— Madeleine L'Engle
We are meek in the way we follow and fierce in the way we fight. In this manner, gentle and fierce meet and are comfortable.
— Lisa Bevere
The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.
— Lao Tzu
It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can complain because a rose has thorns, or you can rejoice Because the thorns have a rose.
— Abraham Lincoln
But logic ignores the more-or-less as absolutely as the sun ignores the candlelight.
— Victor Hugo
The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.
— Joseph Campbell
His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.
— Genesis 49:12
Then we have the Gospel of John, the odd man out. John's story of Jesus is so out of step with the others that it is sometimes hard to see how he could be talking about the same person.
— Peter Enns
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
— Philip K. Dick
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo