Quotes about Paradox

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

It was Kierkegaard who told the wise parable that the door to happiness always opens 'outwards', which means it closes itself precisely against the person who tries to push the door to happiness 'inwards', so to speak.

There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.

To yield is to be preserved whole.To be bent is to become straight.To be empty is to be full.To be worn out is to be renewed.To have little is to possess.To have plenty is to be perplexed.

Thus it is said: The path into the light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak, true purity seems tarnished, true steadfastness seems changeable, true clarity seems obscure, the greatest are seems unsophisticated, the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. The Tao is nowhere to be found. Yet it nourishes and completes all things.

It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?

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.

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.