Quotes about Contradiction
Spirit is often lurking in whatever it is you most dislike.
— Rob Bell
If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.
— Mark Twain
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
— Victor Hugo
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
— GK Chesterton
Leadership without mutual trust is a contradiction in terms.
— Stephen Covey
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
— Walt Whitman
If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. Because you are not fit to go there, I answered. All sinners would be miserable in heaven.
— Emily Bronte
For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.
— John Hurt
America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.
— Philip James Bailey
Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.
— Philip Yancey
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
— Jonathan Edwards
Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson