Pastoral Resources

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

Morality without a sense of paradox is mean.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.