Quotes about Paradox
Thus," he said, "the Christian message is basically amoral and irreligious, paradoxical as that may sound".
- Eric Metaxas
Sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious."
- Eric Metaxas
Christians were free, but he also made it clear that their freedom made them duty-bound to behave well toward others. Christian truth was eleven parts paradox out of ten. This was its essentially mysterious and glorious nature.
- Eric Metaxas
She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.
- Graham Greene
It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous.
- Graham Greene
There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa."
- Robert Brault
Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it.
- Cicero
Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science.
- Stephen Hawking
We wept when we were born though all around us smiled; so shall we smile when we die while all around us weep.
- Charles Spurgeon
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
- Alain de Botton
Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer