Actions Quotes Logo

Theodicy Quotes

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he ...

Show More
Picture of Martin Amis
Martin AmisThe Second Plane: 14 Responses to September 11

Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship J...

Show More

Thy designs are a bottomless pit. How can I descend into this pit to examine it? Thou lookest thousa...

Show More

I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to ...

Show More

Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word...

Show More

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by pr...

Show More
Picture of Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley HauerwasHannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

Christ did not descend from the cross except into the grave. And why not otherwise? Wouldn’t it have...

Show More

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically im...

Show More

Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them.

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...

Show More

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophe...

Show More

If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any ...

Show More

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

Show More