Quotes about Contrast

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

I have learned that one cannot truly know hope unless he has found out how like despair hope is.

Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.

The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured.

When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly.When people see some things as good, other things become bad.

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

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

Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement.

She still did and was all that Undine had so sedulously learned not to be and to do; but to dwell on these obstacles to her success was to be more deeply impressed by the fact that she had nevertheless succeeded.

Have you ever thought about Jesus' physical appearance? If you think about the paintings, he was a relatively handsome Dutchman. But if you think about a prophetic description, "he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him" (Isaiah 53:2). To put it diplomatically, he didn't look like much, and sleepless nights filled with prayer vigils probably didn't help.

Isaiah himself was only more aware of his shame as it stood in contrast to the perfection and purity of the Lord. It brought him to despair at his predicament. But despair is not a bad thing when it compels us to trust in or be associated with God himself.