Able Quote by Epicurus

“Epicurus's old questions are still unanswered: Is he (God) willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent. Is he able, but…

— David Hume

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

— Epicurus

“Epicurus was a philosopher who asserted a deistic worldview, i.e. one in which the gods are wholly separate from the universe and human affairs.…

— Yaakov Malkin

If God is omnipotent, omniscient and wholly good, whence evil? If God wills to prevent evil but cannot, then He is not omnipotent. If…

— David Hume

The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can…

— Epicurus

“If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either…

— Sam Harris

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

— Epictetus

“The core problem seems to lie in the classical-philosophical equation of power with control, and thus omnipotence with omnicontrol, an equation that forces the…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing. Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca: You are confused because the Bible describes God as an omnipotent and benevolent…

— Dan Brown

God, having placed good and evil in our power, has given us full freedom of choice; He does not keep back the unwilling, but…

— John Chrysostom

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil…

— Greg Koukl

If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they…

— Epicurus