John Calvin Quotes

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

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?

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

There are dozens of references to God in the Scriptures for every one to the figure of Satan. This reflects a sometimes forgotten theological truth that the devil is by no means God's counterpart. He is a creature, not the Creator.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

I've said all along that God is in control.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

The first thing that we need to say is that God is grieving, too. Uh, a lot of people try to make it sound like 'well everything that happens is God's will.' That's nonsense. God allows everything, but God does not choose everything.

Religion has caused more misery to all men in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

If we consider how easy it is to elude the Laws of man, to commit unproveable crimes, to corrupt and divert Testimonies, to wrest the sense and meaning of the Laws, etc. there follows a necessity of contributing towards a public Charge, wherewith to have men instructed in the Laws of God, that take notice of evil thoughts and designs, and much more of secret deeds, and that punisheth eternally in another world, what man can but slightly chastise in this.

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

When you fight against the plan of God, you are fighting against the hand of God.