Fitness Quote by Gustave Thibon

“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes…

— Étienne Gilson

“No revolving world, no shining of star, no storm, no creature moves, no actions of men, no errands of angels, no deeds of devil—nothing…

— Arthur W. Pink

“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and…

— Isaac Newton

“The key point is not, as is commonly but wrongly believed, that the empirical investigation of the natural world made or makes a transcendent…

— Brad S. Gregory

“If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?”

— Etienne Vermeersch

“God works creatively with already existing realities to bring about newness. This understanding also entails the idea that the present (and future) is not…

— Terence E. Fretheim

“...we really have no right to reproach God for having created the world. For Him it was the only possible way of escaping from…

— Leszek Kolakowski

“the timeless, spaceless, immaterial “cause” was in fact God. (For”

— Josh McDowell

“If God did not arrange [the world] this way, then there must be an independent factor in the universe. And if there is such,…

— Gordon H. Clark

“God manifests himself in historical revelation, in history. Time initiates processes, and space crystallizes them. God is in history, in the processes.”

— Pope Francis

God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed at the start.

— Anonymous

“as the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead…

— Herman Bavinck