I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.
Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
And almost every one, when age, Disease, or sorrows strike him, Inclines to think there is a God, Or something very like him.
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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