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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong...

The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

"No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die."

Dave Nessia was starving himself to death while hoarding food. It was on the hit reality show Alone. After 73 days alone in the wilderness, he had lost 40 lbs. and his blood pressure had fallen to 80/...

Ironically, the insistence that doctrines do not matter is really a doctrine itself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don’t really know me.

George Harrison memorial tree, killed by beetles

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; th...

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that "individuality" is the key to success.

On an episode of Mad Men, Don Draper is forced to fire an employee for drinking too much on the job. (Oh, the irony.) However, he wants the employee to sober up and return to the agency, so he gives t...

“Quit” doesn’t have to be the opposite of “grit.” This is where “strategic quitting” comes in. Once you’ve found something you’re passionate about, quitting secondary things can be an advantage, becau...

Perhaps the greatest irony in the life of continual comparison is that while it involves so much attention to the attributes and gifts of other people, it’s actually quite self-focused. From that hype...

The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligious world, h...

“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”

One of the great ironies of sin is that when human beings try to become more than human beings, to be as gods, they fall to become lower than human beings. To be your own God and live for your own glo...

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful.

It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

The cynic won’t be fooled by your snake oil, but their posture also prevents them from being wowed by the transcendent or moved by anything beautiful. They live in a cold universe, a world without mys...

What you do speaks so loud, that I cannot hear what you say.

The ironic fact is that humanism which began with man's being central eventually had no real meaning for people. On the other hand, if one begins with the Bible's position that man is created ...

Have you ever noticed that some people hide their kindness? Fred Allen, an American comedian and writer, would always hide behind his own cynicism after performing a kind act. One time Allen rushed ou...

Stories are about the vicissitudes of human intention. Trouble is what drives the drama.