Quotes about Contradiction

"I love mankind," he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular."

It is certain because it is impossible

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Were God Himself the sole and constant object of our desire, we should not be so easily distressed when our opinions are contradicted.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, The author of this book is mistaken; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

If God is love and humans are free, then there must be a hell. Not only would it be a contradiction for God to force people to love him, but it would also be hell for them to be forced to love the One they hate.

There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms. This is why Jesus said, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. (Matthew 23:37) So the only way God could literally destroy all evil is to destroy all freedom.

There are some things even God cannot do. He cannot force anyone to freely accept Him. Forced freedom is a contradiction in terms.

contrary beliefs are possible, but contrary truths are not possible.

The Law of Noncontradiction is a self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense.

paradoxical intention" on the twofold fact that fear brings about that which one is afraid of, and that hyper-intention makes impossible what one wishes.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.