Problem of evil Quote by Susan Neiman Download Open image ““the problem of evil is the guiding force of modern thought.”” — Susan Neiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Problem of evil
“The problem of evil has always seemed to me to be the price we pay for having an intelligible world, one that we can… — Leah Libresco Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, evil will never be wholly defeated.Mankind is faced with a continual struggle against evil. We believe that this is where the meaning of… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
“Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Evil is just what is positive; it makes its own existence felt.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Evil in man is radical, so much so that it cannot be overcome by human power.” — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
“Evil is not an abstract concept. It lives. It has a form. It stalks. It is too real.” — Tom Dooley Copy Share Image
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of good.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For unbelievers, evil can best be described as the abandonment of our minds to the minds of others.” — Al Stefanelli Copy Share Image
“It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only… — Heda Margolius Kovaly 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
Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive… — Ravi Zacharias 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
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great… — James Stewart 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 in which… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 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 the reason… — Greg Koukl 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 and unjust?… — C. S. Lewis 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 our compulsion… — Anonymous 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 the existence… — Yuval Noah Harari 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 corresponds to… — Richard Robinson Copy Share Image
“1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some… — William L. Rowe Copy Share Image
