Quotes about Theodicy

if God is all-powerful and God is all-good, then why do terrible things happen to good people?

God is either good and not all powerful, or He is powerful and not all good. You can't have it both ways.

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

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?

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.

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!

The greatest evil is physical pain.

Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.

Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.