Edward Conard Quotes

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

I believe that God has a specific plan and reason He created each one of us.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Our longing for immortality is good! It was put there on purpose. We were meant - from the moment of our creation - to live forever.

God do everything for a reason.

God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

The power that religion has is that you think nothing is random: If there's a tragedy in my life, that's God testing me or sending me a message.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

What men call accident is God's own part.

A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.

If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.