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Christians necessarily believe we depend on God for everything-a prayerless Christian, then, is a contradiction in terms.
To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.
My life is such a contradiction. My soul yearns for holiness and then runs from the mortification necessary to attain it.
I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
There's a real contradiction that's difficult to explain to the West and the outside world about China and about the Internet.
Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.
The more ignoble I find life, the more strongly I react by contradiction, in humour and in an outburst of liberty and expansion.
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.
We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?"
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.
Faith and reason overpower each other throughout one's life, which results in contradiction, but the conflict never ceases in any sphere.
What we now face is the contradiction between unbalanced and inadequate development and the people's ever-growing needs for a better life.
Many men go into the ministry not only for the power trip involved, but also so that they will never have to be interrupted or contradicted.
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
The burden is on the Jewish majority in Israel to prove that the definition of their country as Jewish and democratic is not a contradiction.
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Man can never stand still. He must find solutions to this contradiction, and ever better solutions to the extent to which reality enables him.
She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties.
I don't think there is necessarily a contradiction between being a hegemonic power on the one hand and functioning multilaterally on the other.
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
Grown men, he told himself, in flat contradiction of centuries of accumulated evidence about the way grown men behave, do not behave like this.
Capitalism, as a result of its own inner contradictions, moves toward a point when it will be unbalanced, when it will simply become impossible.
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.
"You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield."
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.
You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.
That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
I very much favor democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.
No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
There is no contradiction between the fact that Israel has full personal equality of citizenship but extends national rights only to the Jewish people.
When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
In the theater there is often a tension, almost a contradiction, between the way real people would think and behave, and a kind of imposed dramaticness.
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
The business aspect of this sport is a contradiction to what it's really about, and that's knowing something for what it is and not just what it looks like.
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions.