Evil And Suffering Quotes

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

  Epictetus

  Evil, Religion, Doe

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• To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

  Romain Rolland

  Animal, Men, Vegetarianism

  Romain Rolland (1913). “Jean-Christophe: The market-place”

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• Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.

  Timothy Keller

  Faith, Religious, Mean

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly place because everything that corrects the tendency of this unspeakable little creature, man, to feel over-important and over-pleased with himself would disappear. He's bad enough now, but he would be absolutely intolerable if he never suffered.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Evil, Suffering

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• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• When God's children disobeyed their heavenly Father, they damaged everything. When Adam and Eve rebelled against the King of the universe, they broke the whole world. This is why there is evil and suffering. Bad things happen in a world that's broken.

  Greg Koukl

  Kings, Children, Father

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God created the possibility of evil; people actualized that potentiality. The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom. Even an all-powerful God could not have created a world in which people had genuine freedom and yet there was no potentiality for sin, because our freedom includes the possibility of sin within its own meaning.

  Peter Kreeft

  Powerful, Evil People, World

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• The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

  John Piper

  Evil, Suffering, World

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• If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Dirty, Differences, People

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• The Biblical world-view is the only one that accepts the reality of evil and suffering while giving both the cause and the purpose, while offering God-given strength and sustenance in the midst of it.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Biblical, Reality, Offering

  Ravi Zacharias (2009). “Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Goal, End Of Life, Ends

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Silence, Suffering

  Ravi Zacharias (2008). “End of Reason”, p.60, Harper Collins

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• I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied, "It was when I was very ill." Yes, it is often so; God makes us ill in body that we may have time to think of Him, and turn to Him....What would become of some people if they were always in good health, or if they were always prospering? But tribulation is the black dog that goes after the stray sheep, and barks them back to the Good Shepherd. I thank God that there are such things as the visitations of correction and of holy discipline, to preserve our spirit, and bring us to Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Dog, Thinking, Sheep

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• A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces evil and suffering, he may lose his faith. But that’s actually a good thing. I have sympathy for people who lose their faith, but any faith lost in suffering wasn’t a faith worth keeping.

  Randy Alcorn

  Christian, People, Evil

  Randy Alcorn (2010). “If God Is Good Study Guide: Companion to If God Is Good”, p.17, Multnomah

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• All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Men, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.590, Courier Corporation

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• Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Evil, Giving, Suffering

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