Paradoxes

Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man!
-Luke 6: 22-

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
-Matthew 23:12-

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
-Martin Luther King Jr.-