Theodicies Quotes & Sayings

If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover. — Robert Farrar Capon

To trust in your own aliveness, in your own ability to sustain and be sustained - there are times when there is no greater act of defiance. — Jessica Fechtor

It has never been matter of wonder to me that human resolutions are liable to change; one passion gives them birth, another may destroy them. — Antoine Francois Prevost D'Exiles

It is good to dream! After I dream, I envision, and after I envision, I create! — Laurel Burch

I believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. — Douglas Coupland

Men go to their caves .. Women talk — John Gray

There is no failure here sweetheart, just when you quit. — U2

To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one - God alone can do the other. If — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

was just dying to speak with him. — Absalom Milton

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve. — William T. Sherman

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them. — Jose Bergamin

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate. — Thomas Jefferson

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision. — Kevin DeYoung

The beast exists because it is stronger than the thing that you call evolution. In it is some force of life, a demon, driving it through millions of centuries. It does not surrender so easily to weaklings like you and me. — Martin Berkeley

Don't fall into the trap of letting others do everything for you. It's noble to accept help when you need it, lazy to accept it when yo don't. — Fiona Paul

What a Shinobi Should Keep in Mind to Know the Enemy: It is essential for a shinobi monomi [covert scout] to speculate deeply about the way the enemy is. However, you should not report what is not reasonable enough to report. The commander in chief, troop commanders, or strategists make their strategy about the enemy based on the information given from the above covert scouts. This is critical to defense; whether the information is reliable or not is of vital importance. — Yoshie Minami

Without need for excuse or elaborate theodicies, malevolence explains the world that is, and by the strength and rigidity of this explanation an imprint - an outline - of the Creator who cherishes His anonymity is revealed. — John Zande