Quotes about Contrast
The beauty that is in you is greater than the ugliness that is around you.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.
- Michael Wolff
It represented a world I didn't know, the opposite of where I was—and I hated where I was. I hated the poverty, the cigarette smoke, the drug use, the embarrassment, the loneliness. And Diana Ross was promising me that there was a world that wasn't stained with sadness and resignation. Somewhere there was a world that was sensual and robotic and hypnotic. And clean.
- Moby
It represented a world I didn't know, the opposite of where I was—and I hated where I was. I hated the poverty, the cigarette smoke, the drug use, the embarrassment, the loneliness. And Diana Ross was promising me that there was a world that wasn't stained with sadness and resignation. Somewhere there was a world that was sensual and robotic and hypnotic. And clean.
- Moby
Paul declares that 'flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom.' He doesn't mean that physicality will be abolished. 'Flesh and blood' is a technical term for that which is corruptible, transient, heading for death. The contrast is not between what we call physical and what we call nonphysical but between corruptible physicality, on the one hand, and incorruptible physicality, on the other.
- NT Wright
Resurrection, by contrast, has always gone with a strong view of God's justice and of God as the good creator.
- NT Wright
He was not the king they expected.
- NT Wright
There are two points of view in the world: the frog's perspective and bird's-eye view. Any point in between just leads to chaos.
- Olga Tokarczuk
One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.
- Paul David Tripp
Then we have the Gospel of John, the odd man out. John's story of Jesus is so out of step with the others that it is sometimes hard to see how he could be talking about the same person.
- Peter Enns
After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
- Genesis 41:3
After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside the well-fed cows on the bank of the river.
- Genesis 41:3