Quotes About Omniscience

And Allaah is not unaware of what you do.

Not even Necessity knows all ends.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

I didn't know that the moon was in on everything.

Prophecy is an intercept from the mind of an all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful God.

In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.

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

When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say the way God sees events from above?

Let not those who say that the path of obedience is a dangerous one claim to believe in the living and true God. They deny his omniscience, omnipresence, omnipotence. It is his will that the bands of wickedness should be loosed, the heavy burdens of tyranny undone, the oppressed set free.

The simplest, most comprehensive and hardest to disprove explanation for absolutely everything that ever could happen anywhere, at any time, is, of course, 'it was God's will.

If we understood everything, we would be like God.

That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.

Did you imagine you controlled it? Omniscient and omnipotent? Nobody appointed you God, Vorkosigan." Ghostly faint, one corner of his mouth turned up. "I'm sure it was an oversight." He leaned back and closed his eyes.

How to dispense with Padma? How give up her ignorance and superstition, necessary counterweights to my miracle-laden omniscience? How to do without her paradoxical earthiness of spirit, which keeps—kept!—my feet on the ground? I have become, it seems to me, the apex of an isosceles triangle, supported equally by twin deities, the wild god of memory and the lotus-goddess of the present … but must I now become reconciled to the narrow one-dimensionality of a straight line?

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil (this is traditionally called the problem of theodicy) is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics. Surely there must come a time when we will acknowledge the obvious: theology is not little more than a branch of human ignorance. Indeed, it is ignorance with wings.

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

And why do you represent Providence? ... Why do you remember when it forgets?

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

The Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts.

He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth.

For who hath known the mind of the Lord?

He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.

Not so much as the weight of an ant in earth or heaven escapes from thy Lord.