Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine,” Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. “ ‘Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.’ ” “But the sparrow still falls,” Felipe said.

No one makes history, no one sees it happen, no one sees the grass grow.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn’t care to, or he doesn’t exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

The sparrow still falls.

If God exists, either He can do nothing to stop the most egregious calamities, or He does not care to. God, therefore, is either impotent or evil.

God himself can't change the future and still know what's going to happen.

God's only excuse is that he does not exist

There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

The folly isn’t mine. It’s God’s folly. Even in the old days he never asked men to do what was reasonable.

Only god can judge me

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.