Montesquieu Quotes

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

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

God does not play dice.

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

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

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.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

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

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.