Quotes Tagged With :theodicy

Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship....

I felt sorry for the inhabitants and went into the forest to admonish the wolf in God's name not to eat....

His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible.....

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he....

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies....

Why, the whole world of knowledge is not worth that child's prayer to 'dear, kind God'! I say nothing....

If God made everything, did He make the Devil?' This is the kind of embarrassing question which any child....

I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting....

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes.....

Even if the powers destroy us," he said, "who are we, to condemn them? As well might a fleeting word....