427 Quotes About Paradox

The...act of surrender—or devotion, as the case may be—was, to him, a kind of lifeline for those who sought a quick answer and didn’t want to stick around long enough to see their doubt through to its ultimate conclusion. A conclusion, which, of itself, was a bittersweet paradox—for how could doubt simply cease to exist by any stretch of the imagination? Doubt was, nonetheless—from his own perspective—the only inclusive insight into the nature of a Truth exclusive of conditions.

One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of God’s arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already at home. While we wait, we have to trust, to have faith, but it is God’s grace that gives us that faith. As with all spiritual knowledge, two things are true, and equally true, at once. The mind can’t grasp paradox; it is the knowledge of the soul.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

An end to empires. An immovable object to crash an impossible force upon, and break it.

Time becomes meaningless without memory.

The paradox of being;The miracle of birth,The mid-way of living: how the spirit sustain the soul.The mystery of death.

The world makes, and hates, bachelors.

I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.

...the existential paradox we all experience; we feel that we are immortal, yet we know that we will die.