#contradict

Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#emotion #messy #true

Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#church #comes #commandments #contradiction #duty

Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#change #contradictory #i #i am #i see

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #life #me #mercy #my life

The non-comic, factual explanation is that I felt there was a myth about terrorist bombers being medieval-minded, 'fundamentalist, primitivist' people. There seems to be a lot of evidence to contradict that, especially in Britain. Some of the ideology behind what has become modern jihadism was socially progressive, certainly in Egypt, for example. ↗

— Chris Morris

#become #behind #being #bombers #britain

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #awake #because #change #continue

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#call #contradictions #new #new testament #religion

To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#confidence #contradictory #humility #preacher #qualities

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#break #contradictions #difficulties #encounter #gentleness