SO GOOD QUOTES

What God Wills or Permits 

I have heard many people say about everything that comes about: “It was God’s will”, whether the outcome was good or bad. Yet God wants only the best. As for the ills that happen on Earth , they happen against God’s beneficent will. God permits these things to happen because He has generously granted man free will, but God will judge him for it… So that is why the tyrant is free to oppress, the murderer to kill and the thief to steal. All these matters are opposed to God’s good will and He will judge the wrong-doers for them. There is, therefore, a big difference between what God wills and what God permits.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Experiences in Life