Quotes about Paradox

There is no way from us to God -- not even via negativa not even a via dialectica nor paradoxa. The god who stood at the end of some human way -- even of this way -- would not be God.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. Now

Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

Yet, as the ever-woven verdant warp and woof intermixed and hummed around him, the mighty idler seemed the cunning weaver; himself all woven over with the vines; every month assuming greener, fresher verdure; but himself a skeleton. Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories.

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.

God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

The great paradox and humor of God's audacious power: a stuttering prophet will be the voice of God, a barren old lady will become the mother of a nation, a shepherd boy will become their king, and a homeless baby will lead them home.:

You're the most egotistical and the kindest man I know. And that doesn't make sense." "Maybe the concepts don't make sense. Maybe they don't mean what people have been taught to think they mean.