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GOTTFFRIED LEIBNIZ AND GOD

"For what greater master can we find than God, the author of the od Existuniverse? And what more beautiful hymn can we sing to Him than one in which the witness of things themselves expresses His praise. But the more one can give reasons for His love, the more one loves God...Nor should we think that anything is badly arranged in the universe or that God neglects those who honor Him."
(Leibniz, 1976, 280)

"Therefore power and knowledge are perfections and insofar as they belong to God, have no limits. Hence it follows that God, who possesses supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect way and does this not only in a metaphysical but also in a moral sense. With respect to ourselves we can also express this as follows: the more enlightened and informed we are about the works of God, the more we shall be inclined to find them excellent and in entire conformity with everything which might have been desired."
(Ibid, 304)

"I hold, instead, that God does nothing for which He does not deserve to be praised."
(Ibid, 305)

"That the love of God requires our entire satisfaction with and acquiescence in that which He has done. The general knowledge of this great truth, that God always acts in the most perfect and most desirable way possible, is in my opinion the basis of the love which we owe to God above all things, since he who loves seeks his satisfaction in the felicity or perfection of the object loved and of his actions."
(Ibid, 305)

"I believe that it is difficult to love God truly if, having power to change his inclination, one is not inclined to will what He wills. In fact, those who are not satisfied with what He does seem to me like discontented subjects whose intentions are not very different from those of rebels."
(Ibid, 305)

"Since He is the best of all masters, He never demands more than righteous intentions, and it is for Him to know the proper hour and place for making our good designs successful."
(Ibid, 305)

"It is enough, then, to have this confidence in God that He does everything for the best and that nothing can harm those who love Him. But to understand the reasons in particular which have moved Him to choose this order of the universe - to allow sin to be committed, to dispense His saving grace in a certain way - this surpasses the powers of a finite mind, especially if this mind has not yet attained the blessedness of the vision of God."
(Ibid, 305)

"But it is well to understand that God does nothing without order. So Whatever passes for extraordinary is so only in relation to some particular order established among creatures. For as concerns universal order, everything is in conformity with it. So true is this that not only does nothing happen in the world which is absolutely irregular but one cannot even imagine such an event."
(Ibid, 306)

"Thus we may say that no matter how God might have created the world, it would always have been regular and in a certain general order."
(Ibid, 306)

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Leibniz, G. W. , Philosophical Papers and Letters. Boston: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1976.

 
     
 

 

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