If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying.
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Zum Autor"I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence, whatever character actual existence may have."
"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."
"We meet no ordinary people in our lives."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."
"The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary."
"It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."