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Edgar Sheffield Brightman Quotes on God

Edgar Sheffield Brightman was an American philosopher of religion and the leading second-generation representative of Boston Personalism. This page collects quotes attributed to Edgar Sheffield Brightman on the topic of god, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Edgar Sheffield Brightman:

    “God is finite in power but infinite in love.”

  • Attributed to Edgar Sheffield Brightman:

    “Evil is the genuine surd in the divine experience.”

  • Attributed to Edgar Sheffield Brightman:

    “Religion at its best is the cooperation with God for ideal values.”

  • Attributed to Edgar Sheffield Brightman:

    “Every theology of an unlimited God collapses before the fact of evil.”