GOD’S
NATURE

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

The Bible, Revelation 22:13 kjv

God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.

Arcus Aristides

God is always active, always quiet.

Augustine of Hippo

God, to keep us sober, speaks sparingly of his essence.

John Calvin

The God of the universe has need of nothing.

Clement of Rome

God is neither soul nor angel … nor can He be described or understood … He neither stands still nor moves

The Cloud of Unknowing

God is incorporeal, immaterial, impalpable, beyond quantity and circumscription, beyond form and figure.

Cyril of Alexandria

God is the denial of denials.

Meister Eckhart

The more God is in all things, the more he is outside them. The more he is within, the more without.

Meister Eckhart

God is subtle but he is not malicious.

Albert Einstein

God is not a theorem; he is a person. As such, he is only known and encountered in a total relationship which involves and affects not only our mind but the life and character as well. To know God’s dossier is nothing; to know him is everything.

R.T. France

The Father of all … is all understanding, all spirit, all thought, all hearing, all seeing, all light, and the whole source of everything good.

Irenaeus

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.

C.S. Lewis

God is not something … God is beyond nothing and beyond something … God cannot be called “this” rather than “that”…

Nicholas of Cusa

That One is not such as are visible things. Rather, He transcends incomparably and inalterably all the visible world, at once all-good and transcending all that is good.

Symeon the New Theologian