Quotes about Paradox

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

the paradox is that God must destroy in us, all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous

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

For so it usually happens in the world. Righteous men are regarded as sinners and vice versa.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.

The kick in the teeth with fame is, when you don't have it, you beat yourself up for it because you don't have it, but when you have it, you are miserable and kill yourself for it.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

Jesus's message to his contemporaries, and the church's message about Jesus, never fit what people expect. Often enough, they don't fit what the church itself expects.

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.

Whoever heard of a crucified Messiah?

This is part of the paradox of love, in which love freely given creates a context for love to be freely returned, and so on in a cycle where complete freedom and complete union do not cancel each other out but rather celebrate each other and make one another whole.