Quotes About Omniscience

Even if we allow the dubious luxury of arbitrarily conjuring up a terminator to an infinite regress and giving it a name, simply because we need one, there is absolutely no reason to endow that terminator with any of the properties normally ascribed to God: omnipotence, omniscience, goodness, creativity of design, to say nothing of such human attributes as listening to prayers, forgiving sins and reading innermost thoughts.

If God is omniscient, he must already know how he is going to intervene to change the course of history using his omnipotence. But that means he can't change his mind about his intervention, which means he is not omnipotent

Karen Owens has captured this witty little paradox in equally engaging verse:   Can omniscient God, who Knows the future, find The omnipotence to Change His future mind?

The deeds of men never escape the gods. [Lat., Acta deos nunquam mortalia fallunt.]

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

Even I don't know what you're doing, and I know everything.

If God knows the number of hairs on your head he already knew where you will go after you're dead

Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience is God's eye, mercy is God's delight, eternity is God's duration, but holiness is God's beauty!

1) There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. 2) An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. 3) (Therefore) There does not exist an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good being.

Divinity is in its omniscience and omnipotence like a wheel, a circle, a whole, that can neither be understood, nor divided, nor begun nor ended.

Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart. No place is deprived of his presence.

The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.

Justice is that which is practiced by God himself, and to be practiced in its perfection by none but him. Omniscience and omnipotence are requisite for the full exertion of it.

Has it ever occurred to you that nothing occurs to God?

God doesn't need to have emergency meetings. He's never gathered the Trinity and asked 'What happened there'.

...Nothing puzzles God

Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.

I knew a mathematician who said 'I do not know as much as God. But I know as much as God knew at my age'.