Quote by Susan Neiman Download Open image ““How could a good God create a world full of innocent suffering?”” — Susan Neiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How could any Lord have made this world?... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.” — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
“The only way I can process it is through my faith. That God was not going to let suffer all this in vain. Why… — Rabia Chaudry Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when one has seen such suffering one begins to understand, in this world, even the innocent may be forced to… — Jessica Skye Davies Copy Share Image
“God visits suffering on innocent people of scope and scale that would even embarrass the most ambitious psychopath” — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
“God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.” — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“...let us recognize that a large fraction of our suffering and that of our fellow human beings is brought about by what we do… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Sometimes realism seems to mean no more than the advice to plan ahead before you start a war. Sometimes realism means the recognition that… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
In the most general terms, the Enlightenment goes back to Plato's belief that truth and beauty and goodness are connected; that truth and beauty,… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“The claim that there is no alternative but perdition to a worldview that shows how everything fits together and makes perfect sense is a… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it’s harder than… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Vitality is not the denial of mortality, but the grown-up way of facing it.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Negotiating small differences is part of being a grownup; no one can tell you in advance where to put your foot down.” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“how can human beings behave in ways that so thoroughly violate both reasonable and rational norms?” — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“It’s a matter of logical structure: what is, just is, and any claim about what ought to be is a claim about our own… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image
“Kitsch is much more than a question of style; it's a preference for consolation over truth. Disney's version of reality is not just cleaned… — Susan Neiman Copy Share Image