Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“The best thing any man can do or be which will be of utmost importance both to him and the society is… — Johnson Bandi Copy Share Image
“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
“There is no one who is completely evil as to lack some goodness in him.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
The best answer to the problem of evil is not one so much found on paper but on wood. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The great human problem of evil stems from the illusion of separateness. Whenever this illusion is overcome, we behave lovingly to one… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering… — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the… — William Temple Copy Share Image
We often represent God to ourselves as being able to draw from non-being a world without sorrows, faults, dangers - a world… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“En natt i lengst forsvundne tider våknet mennesket og så seg selv... da dyrene kom til sine vannhull, hvor han ventet dem… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
“The problem of evil has baffled humankind since Eden; perhaps because it can only be approached through facing the mystery of good,… — D.M. Dooling Copy Share Image
Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply… — Carl R. Trueman Copy Share Image
“how much Jesus had broken away from the historically conditioned attitudes of his time, for the prevailing idea at that time was… — John A. Sanford Copy Share Image
“One of the recent arguments from design, that based on the so-called fine-tuning life of some fundamental physical constants, founders on the… — Colin Howson Copy Share Image
If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We have spent centuries of philosophy trying to solve "the problem of evil," yet I believe the much more confounding and astounding… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Even if the intelligent design of some structure has been established, it still is a separate question whether a wise, powerful, and… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“If there are good reasons why God might permit evil in this life (such as the preservation of free will and the… — J. Warner Wallace Copy Share Image
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Within biblical theology it remains the case that the one living God created a world that is other than himself, not contained… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The point was this: if Enlightenment progress is solving the problem of evil, all Jesus needs to have done is to point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Reasonableness is a matter of degree. Beliefs can be very reasonable (Japan exists), fairly reasonable (quarks exist), not unreasonable (there's intelligent life… — Stephen Law Copy Share Image
“I cannot understand why we idle discussing religion. If we are honest—and scientists have to be—we must admit that religion is a… — Paul A.M. Dirac Copy Share Image
“In the Christian religion, though perhaps not in any other, we frequently find a conception of god that is selfcontradictory and therefore… — Richard Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Battle of Good and Evil Polytheism gave birth not merely to monotheist religions, but also to dualistic ones. Dualistic religions espouse… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The problem of evil has always seemed to me to be the price we pay for having an intelligible world, one that… — Leah Libresco Copy Share Image
“Evil is the most difficult problem in the world. It is also the strongest objection to God’s existence. If God does exist,… — Jon Morrison Copy Share Image
“Gottlieb pulled away from her. “God may have drawn back from the world, to give us free will. The problem of evil… — Susan Elia MacNeal Copy Share Image
The problem of good and evil is not the problem of good and evil, but only the problem of evil. In opposition… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image