Paulo Coelho Quotes

Catholic theology believes that God gave man free will, and you can't give somebody free will and then send in a play from the sidelines.

He [God] made us free, and He respects that. It is two different spheres of causality. Interdependent, though. It is not two boxes looking at one another without any kind of direct connections. There are very direct connections. That's why the question of "how are we free if God is omnipotent?" is a real, constant question. Ultimately, God is all powerful, and yet we are free.

All things are ordered by God, but His providence takes in our free agency, as well as His own sovereignty.

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

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

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

God uses whoever he wants.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

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

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

The future belongs to God, and it is only he who reveals it, under extraordinary circumstances.

It's not as if grace did one half of the work and free choice the other; each does the whole work, in its own peculiar contribution. Grace does the whole work, and so does free choice - with this one qualification: That whereas the whole is done in free choice, so is the whole done of grace.

Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth—no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.

God never does anything accidentally.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.