Quotes about Contrast
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
— Pope Francis
I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!
— Vance Havner
Everything that is fear cannot be love, and everything that is love cannot be fear.
— Wayne Dyer
Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God.
— Beth Moore
Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.
— Billy Graham
I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.
— Billy Graham
Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair.
— Helen Keller
Only by contact with evil could I have learned to feel by contrast the beauty of truth and love and goodness.
— Helen Keller
I'm not like a real person. I love being artificial. I think there's a little magic in the fact that I'm so totally real, but look so artificial at the same time.
— Dolly Parton
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.
— Ricky Gervais
Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.
— Lydia Millet
Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.
— Max Lucado