Inconsistently Consistent Quotes & Sayings

Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic? — Philip Berrigan

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn't imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn't really imagine it hadn't. — Ann Brashares

Countries which have a different base, for example, a Christian one (or at least one with the memory of a Christian foundation) may indeed act most inconsistently and horribly. But when a state with a materialistic base acts arbitrarily and gives no dignity to man, internally or externally, it is being consistent to its basic presuppositions and principles. — Francis A. Schaeffer

There is no justice in love ... it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality ... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal. — Marilynne Robinson

Few are the friends of a mans self, most those of his circumstances. — Baltasar Gracian

National Transformation must begin with every citizen of the land. — Sunday Adelaja