Quotes about Paradox

Isn't it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?" Jessica

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

When is a gift not a gift?

Organic church life, however, is a wedding of glory and gore.

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

I found myself earnestly explaining to the young minister that I did not believe in God, 'but I've discovered that I can't live as though I didn't believe in him. As long as I don't need to say any more than that I try to live as though I believe in God, I would very much like to come to church--if you'll let me.

And another lovely paradox: we can be humble only when we know that we are God's children, of infinite value, and eternally loved.

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.