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- Nov 07, 2020
Contrasted Quotes
Quotes that draw sharp contrasts and comparisons
These contrasted quotes set ideas side by side, comparing old Age with life itself and measuring Christianity's history against the far longer span of life on Earth.
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- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
- Daily Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
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- Nov 07, 2020