Quotes about Paradox

That is why God is a scandal to men and women—because He cannot be comprehended by a finite mind.

The paradox of prayer is that it asks for a serious effort while it can only be received as a gift. We cannot plan, organize or manipulate God; but without a careful discipline, we cannot receive him either.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.

Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb...

The preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both...

It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present.

This is the beautiful paradox of the Child Who made His mother; the mother, too, was only a child.

I want to be ignorant of everything in the world — everything but You, dear Jesus. And then, by the strangest of strange paradoxes, I shall be wise!

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

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