J. M. E. McTaggart

On the determinist hypothesis an omnipotent God could have prevented all sin by creating us with better natures and in more favourable surroundings. … Hence we should not be responsible for our sins to God.

Religion has always, I think, implied a belief in some fundamental harmony, some sort of reconciliation between the claims of our own nature and the facts of the universe.

The really fundamental aspect of the dialectic is not the tendency of the finite category to negate itself but to complete itself.