God's Nature Quotes

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.

When we detach the Word of God from the heart of God, we miss the point of God.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

God is Spirit - without the Holy Spirit you cannot relate to Him.

Of course God enjoys a good prank as much as the next infallible deity.

God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself.

Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

The love of God is not created- it is His nature.

In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

God seems to be an unwilling participant in our efforts to pigeonhole Him.

The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.

God is beyond definition. But according to one's own vision or receptivity, one will define God in one's own way. Some will say that God is all Love. Others will say that God is all Power. Each one will see God according to his own necessity, his own receptivity and, finally, according to the way God wants him to see the ultimate Truth.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Patience is God's nature.