Quotes about Contradiction

The character of the publican and sinner is not always practically incompatible with that of the modern Pharisee, for the majority of us scarcely see more distinctly the faultiness of our own conduct than the faultiness of our own arguments, or the dullness of our own jokes.

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.

Look at you. Why is the only woman you ever cared about a world-class criminal - are you a masochist?

It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.

This time we live in is saying, 'Live for yourself, and whatever makes you happy' and all this kind of stuff, and it's so contrary. And we so don't want to go and be reckless for the Lord.

Put bluntly, the American church today accepts grace in theory but denies it in practice. We say we believe that the fundamental structure of reality is grace, not works - but our lives refute our faith.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.