Quotes about Paradox

But an acceptable Christianity is not Christian; a comprehensible God is no more than an idol. I don't want that kind of God.

one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Austerity has always made me happy, and its opposite, miserable. I find it strange that, knowing this, I should so often have inflicted upon myself the nausea of over-indulgence, and had to fight off the black dogs of satiety. Human beings, as Pascal points out, are peculiar in that they avidly pursue ends they know will bring them no satisfaction; gorge themselves with food which cannot nourish and with pleasures which cannot please. I am a prize example.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

If that be simply perfectest Which can by no way be expresst But negatives, my love is so. To All, which all love, I say no. Negative Love

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.

We have killed more people celebrating our independence day than we lost fighting for it.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.