Quotes about Irony

When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit.

Truth offends everyone outside its definitions. But the irony of truth is that the greater its potential for offense, the greater its potential for giving hope.

Your kids ever act like that? Tim laughed. Come on, man, I'm a pastor. My kids were perfect.

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

The irony of all this is that God of perfect justice is both the one for whom we long and the one whom we dread. We long for someone to set things right, to punish those who terrorize, molest, kills and enslave the innocent... we want a judge with total power and piercing commitment to righteousness. But when his eyes turn on us, we realize that we too, are guilty. We, too, deserve his judgement.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

I have traveled millions of miles, speaking to Christians. I have counseled privately with hundreds of them about their beliefs and lifestyles. What I have found has to be one of the most tragic ironies of all time: A tiny group of believers who have the Gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.

A study found exercise may be bad for your health. Which means I'm not fat, I'm just morbidly over-healthed.

You are not the worst girl in the city of New York; the worst girl in the city of New York says that she is the best girl in the city of New York." She did not understand the paradox.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?