Quotes about Paradox

The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.

We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last.

The nearer the church, the further from God.

Something has surely gone terribly wrong when Christians are the best atheist arguments against the Christian faith and Christendom their best argument for atheism.

They crush olives within their walls; they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.