For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we…

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan

I arrived at the conviction that we should, more easily and more thoroughly than we now do or ever have done, understand the nature…

— Isak Dinesen

“Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu).”

— Jeffrey K. Liker

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will…

— Carl Sagan

“You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is…

— Christopher Hitchens

“If we further consider this divine panoramic view within which all evil is supposedly a "secret good" is held by a God who, according…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is…

— G.K. Chesterton

“If there is a "problem of evil" there is also a "problem of good." Wherever we look we see not only confusion but beauty.…

— Kallistos Ware

“Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing of the sufferings of grown-up…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Christ did not descend from the cross except into the grave. And why not otherwise? Wouldn’t it have put fine comical expressions on the…

— Wendell Berry

“Elder Maxwell on Wintry Doctrines Elder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship Jesus will eventually request each of us to…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-počiniteljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki…

— Johann Baptist Metz

“Thus do the gods justify the life of man: they themselves live it--the only satisfactory theodicy!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil (this is traditionally called the problem of theodicy) is insurmountable.…

— Sam Harris

“If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child can ask before breakfast, and…

— Dorothy L. Sayers