Quotes about Paradox
He must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine.
- John Eldredge
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Doubt always coexists with faith, for in the presence of certainty who would need faith at all?
- Philip Yancey
Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.
- Jacques Maritain
Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.
- Elbert Hubbard
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
- Mae West
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
When we give vent to the soul, to try what grace is there, corruption comes out; and when we search for corruption, grace appears. So
- John Owen
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
The absence of Jesus is the mode of his presence.
- James Carroll