Quotes about Contrast
Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
— George Eliot
Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.
— John Milton
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.
— John Milton
Dark with excessive bright.
— John Milton
No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save." Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together.
— John Piper
There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
This is good, and all good things cast shadows.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Not only that, Jesus finds all the "wrong" people on God's side and all the "right" people against God.
— Scot McKnight
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
— Samuel Johnson
I'm talking about intellectually and emotionally challenging, but at the same time it's actually not that challenging. So there's this dichotomy.
— Marina Abramovic
He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.
— Mark Twain