The Promise of Paradox Quotes

“Today education has become a training ground for competition.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“By attaching our identity to things only a few can have, we ignore the intrinsic preciousness of all human life.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“Community can teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears to hear the fullness of God’s word for our lives.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“It seems ironic to suggest that some of us may be called to build community in our churches, for the church as it was meant to be is a historical archetype of community.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“If one grows up in a family where trust does not exist and support cannot be found, one becomes an adult fearful of further rejection, an adult who will not risk community again.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“I assume that each person contains all the potentials that education wishes to cultivate: insight, capacity for observation and analysis, ability to appreciate, creative energy.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“is not a voracious capitalism but the spiritual insight that we cannot buy the identity and security we seek.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

“well-structured group can be smarter than any of its members.”
― Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life