Quotes about Paradox
The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.
— Eugene Peterson
Even though innocent, anything I say incriminates me; blameless as I am, my defense just makes me sound worse.
— Eugene Peterson
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
— GK Chesterton
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.
— Soren Kierkegaard
If the Word of God is about anything at all, it is about God's will rather than ours. Our liberty is paradoxically discovered through the will of God rather than our own.
— Beth Moore
If God chooses for you never to have physical children, He's calling you to a far bigger family! God purposely placed the dream of fruitful lives in our hearts. Oh, how I love the paradoxical ways our glorious heavenly Father works. Only He can bring gain from loss. Only He can make us more fruitful in barrenness!
— Beth Moore
Embrace the tension.
— Beth Moore
He often uses the foolish things of this world to confound the wise (see 1 Cor. 1:28).
— Beth Moore
It may be that the human race is not ready for freedom. The air of liberty may be too rarefied for us to breathe. Certainly I wouldn't be writing this book, on this subject, if living with freedom were easy. The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
— Steven Pressfield
One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.
— Billy Graham
Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it... Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?
— Billy Graham