Quotes about Paradox
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
- GK Chesterton
IN GOD'S KINGDOM, many things are the opposite of what you'd expect. To be great, be a humble servant. To be strong, recognize your weakness. To be close to God, admit the darkness and depravity in your heart.
- Zig Ziglar
Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
- Walt Whitman
For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
- John Hurt
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be.
- Mother Angelica
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
- Philip Yancey
God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!
- Joni Eareckson Tada
God is predictably unpredictable.
- RT Kendall
The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.
- Reid Hoffman
Success is a gift, but it's a handicap at the same time, I think.
- Stromae
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson