Bertrand Russell Quotes

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.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

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.

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

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

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

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

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

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.

I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

God does not play dice.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.