Full Idea
Being made confident by demonstrations of the goodness and the justice of God, we disregard the appearances of harshness and justice which we see in this small portion of his Kingdom that is exposed to our gaze.
Gist of Idea
Being confident of God's goodness, we disregard the apparent local evils in the visible world
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (The Theodicy [1710], p.120), quoted by Franklin Perkins - Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed 2.IV
Book Reference
Perkins,Franklin: 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed' [Continuum 2007], p.54
A Reaction
Hm. If this locality is full of evils, and the rest of it is much better, how come we are stuck in this miserable corner of things? God is obliged to compromise, but did he select us to get the worst of it?