Joseph Addison Quotes

The judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

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.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just...

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

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.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

To live without evil belongs only to the gods.

He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.

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.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel.

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

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

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.

The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

As the Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh, Jesus inherited divine attributes. He was the only person ever born into mortality who could perform this most significant and supernal act.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.