Quotes about Paradox

Embrace the tension.

He often uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise (see 1 Cor. 1:28).

It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe. Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it... Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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

And I confess to Thee, O Lord, that I yet know not what time is, and again I confess unto Thee, O Lord, that I know that I speak this in time, and that having long spoken of time, that very "long" is not long, but by the pause of time. How then know I this, seeing I know not what time is? or is it perchance that I know not how to express what I know?

But to say there was a time when time was not, is as absurd as to say there was a man when there was no man.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.