Quotes about Paradox

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.

You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.

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

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.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

The great and merciful surprise is that we come to God, not by doing it right, but by doing it wrong.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

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.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe