Quotes about Discrepancy

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.

One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying.

I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.

There were excesses in science and there were excesses in religion. A reasonable man wouldn't be stampeded by either one. There were many interpretations of Scripture and many interpretations of the natural world. Both were created by God, so both must be mutually consistent. Wherever a discrepancy seems to exist, either a scientist or a theologian—maybe both—hasn't been doing his job. Palmer

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

I realized that for all the power inherent in the seat I now occupied, there would always be a chasm between what I knew should be done to achieve a better world and what in a day, week, or year I found myself actually able to accomplish.

There is an enormous gap between what we think we can do and what God calls us to do.

In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

the only thing above average is the cow-to-human ratio.

It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?