Quotes about Paradox
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
— Peter Kreeft
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
— William Faulkner
Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering
— William Lane Craig
The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't really want Him most of the time.
— Francis Chan
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther
The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
— Frederick Buechner
I would rather walk every day in the darkness with a God who remains a mystery to me than in the light with a God I completely understand.
— Kay Warren
I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.
— CS Lewis
He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
— CS Lewis
Either a beast or a god.
— Aristotle
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
— Randy Alcorn