Quotes about Contrast

Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

Better that the book should be not quite so good, and the writer better, and not himself a ridiculous contrast to all he has written.

Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.

Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snow-drift The warm rosebuds below.

Romans 8 contains a powerful theology of suffering. There's the groaning of those dying without hope, and in contrast, the groaning of those in childbirth. Both processes are painful, yet they are very different. The one is the pain of hopeless dread, the other the pain of hopeful anticipation. The Christian's pain is very real, but it's the pain of a mother anticipating the joy of holding her child. It

There is a difference between tears of hope and tears of hopelessness." —Erwin Lutzer

You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness.

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's

The emancipatory gift of YHWH to Israel is contrasted with all the seductions of images. The memory of the exodus concerns the God of freedom who frees.

If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.