Most theists are deists most of the time, in practice if not in theory. They practice the absence of God instead of the presence of God.
Peter KreeftOn my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'
Peter KreeftNo emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
Peter Kreeft