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God: Quotations from Burning Words

What is God? The telescope by which we hold converse with the stars, the microscope which unveils the secrets of nature, the crucible of the chemist, the knife of the anatomist, the reflective faculties of the philosopher, all the common instruments of science, avail not here. On the threshold of that impenetrable mystery, a voice arrests our steps. From out the clouds and darkness that are round about God's throne, the question comes, "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty to perfection?"— THOMAS GUTHRIE

God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.— WESTMINSTER CATECHISM

Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.— CHARLES KINGSLEY

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, "Let us make God in our image."— DOUGLAS JERROLD

God Himself- His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all. A— GEORGE MACDONALD

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.— MASSILLON

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.— S. IRENÆUS PRIME

From Thee, great God! we spring, to Thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.— SAMUEL JOHNSON