Quotes about Theodicy
Our best feelings, which God himself has planted in our hearts, instinctively revolt against the thought that a God of infinite love and justice should create millions of immortal beings in his own image—probably more than half of the human race—in order to hurry them from the womb to the tomb, and from the tomb to everlasting doom!
— Philip Schaff
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.
— Peter Kreeft
The greatest evil is physical pain.
— St. Augustine
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
— Timothy Keller
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.
— NT Wright
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
— RC Sproul
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
— Elie Wiesel
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
— Max Lucado
I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
— RC Sproul Jr.
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
— St. Augustine
Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.
— Greg Koukl
Dostoyevsky, who was a believer, wrote that the "death of a single infant calls into question the existence of God."1
— John Ortberg