Quotes about Theodicy

Whenever anyone tells you that coronavirus means that God is calling people—perhaps you!—to repent, tell them to read Job. The whole point is that that is not the point.

That's what's so striking about the title of Kushner's book: When Bad Things Happen to Good People. How is that fair? Well, the answer to that is that there are no good people.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.

One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1

This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good.

If a human artist or employer made children suffer so that something immensely impressive or valuable could come to pass, we would put him in prison. Why then should we excuse God for causing such undeserved pain, no matter how wonderful the ultimate result may be?

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

Theodicy ... what is involved is not a theoretical answer to the enigma of evil ... but an answer of faith ... the abstract questions of theodicy fall away in the shadow of the event of the cross.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.