Agatha Christie Quotes

This means that to man God gave a degree of free will.

Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

I don't give the devil credit for creating nothing.

I do not believe evil men are led by God. I believe there are plots of evil. We live in a sinful world, and there are a lot of things that happen as a result of sin.

If there was no moral evil upon earth, there would be no physical evil.

I don't know that I believe that God is in control of everything that happens. As a Jew, I believe that we have free will and we are responsible for our actions. But I guess it's something I'm still probing.

You enter a state of controlled passivity, you relax your grip and accept that even if your declared intention is to justify the ways of God to man, you might end up interesting your readers rather more in Satan.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature ...