Quotes about Dichotomy
We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the contrary, Augustine says (Enchiridion 14) that "evil exists only in good.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson
The nearer the church, the further from God.
- Lancelot Andrewes
In philosophy, the opposite of truth is error; in Scripture, the opposite of truth is a lie.
- Brennan Manning
the real dichotomy in the Christian community today is not between conservatives and liberals or creationists and evolutionists but between the awake and the asleep.
- Brennan Manning
The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.
- Randy Alcorn
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
- Thomas Jefferson