Quotes about Paradox

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

From this, however, it does not follow that the ethical is to be abolished, but it acquires an entirely different expression, the paradoxical expression — that, for example, love to God may cause the knight of faith to give his love to his neighbor the opposite expression to that which, ethically speaking, is required by duty. If

Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed was also the blessing he received.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Where all life dies death lives.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.