Quotes about Contradiction

any specific teaching that contradicts a teaching of the Bible is false.

Reality rebounds, and things turn out the opposite of what they seem and what people expect. Strength becomes weakness; love becomes pornography; pleasure becomes boredom; and so on.

For at the heart of freedom lies a grand paradox: the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4—5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.

They fully intend to cast him down from his lofty perch; they delight in lies; with their mouths they bless, but inwardly they curse. Selah

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

In my futile life I have seen both of these: A righteous man perishing in his righteousness, and a wicked man living long in his wickedness.