Quotes about Paradox
A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom. Only those who understand the profound paradox of the cross can also understand the whole meaning of Jesus' assertion: my kingdom is not of this world.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For we cannot speak of the beginning; where the beginning begins our thinking stops, it comes to an end.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
How does Jesus differ from other great persons and heroes? All heroes come from lowliness and want to be great, while Jesus comes from the heights and wants to be humble. All heroes are human beings and want to be like God, while Christ is God and wants to be a human being. All heroes are born of the earth; Christ is born of God.[524] [—] John 3:6; Acts 4:12
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us (Mark 15.34). The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we stand continually. Before God and with God we live without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.
- Jerry Bridges
The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.
- Jerry Bridges
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
- Ernest Hemingway
Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.
- Graham Greene
You might just as well say," added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in its sleep, "that 'I breathe when I sleep' is the same thing as 'I sleep when I breathe'!
- Lewis Carroll
America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.
- Malcolm X
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
- Oscar Wilde