Omnipotent-benevolent simply means that God is all-powerful and well-meaning.'
'I understand the concept. It's just . . . there seems to be a contradiction.'
'Yes. The contradiction is pain. Man's starvation, war, sickness . . .'
'Exactly!' Chartrand knew the camerlengo would understand. 'Terrible things happen in this world. Human tragedy seems like proof that God could not possibly be both all-powerful and well-meaning. If He loves us and has the power to change our situation, He would prevent our pain, wouldn't He?'
The camerlengo frowned. 'Would He?'
Chartrand felt uneasy. Had he overstepped his bounds? Was this one of those religious questions you just didn't ask? 'Well . . . if God loves us, and He can protect us, He would have to. It seems He is either omnipotent and uncaring, or benevolent and powerless to help.'
'Do you have children, Lieutenant?'
Chartrand flushed. 'No, signore.'
'Imagine you had an eight-year-old son . . . would you love him?'
'Of course.'
'Would you let him skateboard?'
Chartrand did a double take. The camerlengo always seemed oddly "in touch" for a clergyman. 'Yeah, I guess,' Chartrand said. 'Sure, I'd let him skateboard, but I'd tell him to be careful.'
'So as this child's father, you would give him some basic, good advice and then let him go off and make his own mistakes?'
'I wouldn't run behind him and mollycoddle him if that's what you mean.'
'But what if he fell and skinned his knee?'
'He would learn to be more careful.'
The camerlengo smiled. 'So although you have the power to interfere and prevent your child's pain, you would choose to show your love by letting him learn his own lessons?'
'Of course. Pain is part of growing up. It's how we learn.'
The camerlengo nodded. 'Exactly.


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Seven Deadly Sins. Saligia is an acronym for: superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and a...
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Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes in around her.
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Sometimes the only choice is the lesser of two evils.
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The roads to salvation are many.
Forgiveness is not the only path.
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Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.
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You came back because you’ve been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can’t ru...
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Technically, everyone is talking to me. I’m able to partition myself quite easily. You are hearing...
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Enjoy it. One way or another, your days are numbered.
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My friends, I am not saying I know for a fact that there is no God. All I am saying is that if there...
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Seek and ye shall find.
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We are now perched on a strange cusp of history, a time when the world feels like it’s been turned...
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Never make a promise you cannot keep.
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Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triump...
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If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
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Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that sci...
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The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece
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I've got to stop being such a snob about leather-bound books, he reminded himself. E-books do have t...
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The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
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Every faith in the world is based on fabrication. That is the definition of faith―acceptance of th...
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Seek the goodness, become the goodness.D
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From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The p...
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Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tell...
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It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.
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But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its a...
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Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.
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One does not need to have cancer to analyze its symptoms.
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If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong!
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Mr. Langdon, I did not ask if you believe what man says about God. I asked if you believed in God. T...
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Buddha had said:
"Each of us is a God. Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hea...
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No love is greater than that of a father for His son.
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the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!
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Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it ...
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Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.
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No good deed goes unpunished.
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Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
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Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me...
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Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.
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The media is the right arm of anarchy.
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.
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The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the worl...
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Throughout history, every period of enlightenment has been accompanied by darkness, pushing in oppos...
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TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa...
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Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile...
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Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.
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Even brilliant scientists Google themselves.
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He thought about science, about faith, about man. he thought about how every culture, in every count...
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the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths
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Angels and demons were identical--interchangeable archetypes--all a matter of polarity. The guardian...
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Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.
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We all fear what we do not understand.
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Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrum...
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Darkness feeds on apathy.
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Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas ar...
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Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death bef...
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Professor Langdon,' called a young man with curly hair in the back row, 'if Masonry is not a secret ...
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The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.
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Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new lig...
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Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.
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Gut?”
“General Unified Theory.” Kohler quipped. “The theory of everything.
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Leonardo believed his research had the
potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. ...
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