Quotes about Paradox

Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch.

Life is strange, and often imponderable!

A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.

Sometimes. Sometimes it's a ambulance. Today it's a hearse.

They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other. The hands that felled trees also cut umbilical cords; the hands that wrung the necks of chickens and butchered hogs also nudged African violets into bloom; the arms that loaded sheaves, bales, and sacks rocked babies into sleep. They patted biscuits into flaky ovals of innocence—and shrouded the dead. They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men.

Here is the central paradox: the pastor is a public figure who must make himself nothing, who must speak not to attract attention to himself but rather to point away from himself—unlike most contemporary celebrities. The pastor must make truth claims to win people not to his own way of thinking but to God's way. The pastor must succeed, not by increasing his own social status but, if need be, by decreasing it.

Love is not "fulfilling" oneself through the use of another. Love is giving oneself to another, for the good of the other, and receiving the other as a gift.78 The lethal paradox of the age was that, for all its alleged humanism, it had ended up devaluing the human person into an economic unit, an ideological category, an expression of a class or race or ethnicity.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good.

Je mehr sich die Dinge ändern, desto mehr bleibt alles beim alten.

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.