Quotes About Whence

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

the Church, in fact, was the matrix that produced the university, the nest whence it took flight." 31

we must save the world as well. All from this library." Lincoln gave a crooked shrug. "There are worse places from whence to mount a defense of civilization.

If we admit a First Cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. "That's Darwin

With all your science - can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul?

He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and what it was

Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, we would willingly give cure as know.

although all debts in word, deed, and thought were washed away in baptism. He, then, who sees aright, sees whence, and when, and where he must hope for that perfection to which nothing can be added.

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.