Quotes about Theodicy
if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?
- Barbara Brown Taylor
God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.
- Jerry Bridges
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
- CS Lewis
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
- William Temple
Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.
- Elie Wiesel
God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.
- Alvin Plantinga
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
The greatest evil is physical pain.
- St. Augustine
Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.
- William Lane Craig
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
- William Wordsworth
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
- Timothy Keller
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