Quotes about Contradiction
Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.
- John of the Cross
Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.
- Jonathan Edwards
Thus," he said, "the Christian message is basically amoral and irreligious, paradoxical as that may sound".
- Eric Metaxas
It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
- Eric Metaxas
I came to trust in Jesus as my Savior after a two-year personal study of the Bible that convinced me that Scripture is free of contradiction and error - doctrinally, historically, and scientifically.
- Hugh Ross
She loved him whatever that meant but love was not an eternal thing like hatred and disgust.
- Graham Greene
We can think of the Matrix as the total web of lies we've internalized that keep us living in contradiction to our true self— the self that is defined by God through Christ alone.
- Gregory Boyd
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
- Robert Brault
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
- Lily Tomlin
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
- Alain de Botton
It's much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nietzsche could have arisen only from the soil of the German Reformation. Here, the contradiction between the natural and grace is starkly opposed to the reconciliation of nature with grace in the Roman heritage.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer