There are three paradoxes of the Christian life: You must give in order to receive, you must let go in order to possess, and you must die in order to live.

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In this quote from Anton Chekhov, the writer explains that the Christian life is a paradox. This means that it has both elements of paradox and contradictions. In any given situation, something can be true at the same time. One example might be someone saying ‘I love you’ and you saying ‘I don’t love you anymore.’ Both statements are true at the same time, but obviously they cannot both be true.

There are other examples in everyday life, such as the fact that we must die in order to live because God created us to live forever. The idea of death is a paradox because one cannot truly be dead until they have been alive.

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