{"id":7816,"date":"2016-08-16T23:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/godsnature\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:44:24","slug":"godsnature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/godsnature\/","title":{"rendered":"GOD\u2019S\nNATURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Bible, Revelation 22:13 kjv<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is not in need of anything, but all things are in need of him.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Arcus Aristides<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is always active, always quiet.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God, to keep us sober, speaks sparingly of his essence.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Calvin<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The God of the universe has need of nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Clement of Rome<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is neither soul nor angel \u2026 nor can He be described or understood \u2026 He neither stands still nor moves<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is incorporeal, immaterial, impalpable, beyond quantity and circumscription, beyond form and figure.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Cyril of Alexandria<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is the denial of denials.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Meister Eckhart<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The more God is in all things, the more he is outside them. The more he is within, the more without.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Meister Eckhart<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is subtle but he is not malicious.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Albert Einstein<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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\u2019s dossier is nothing; to know him is everything.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>R.T. France<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The Father of all \u2026 is all understanding, all spirit, all thought, all hearing, all seeing, all light, and the whole source of everything good.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Irenaeus<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>God is not something \u2026 God is beyond nothing and beyond something \u2026 God cannot be called \u201cthis\u201d rather than \u201cthat\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Nicholas of Cusa<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Symeon the New Theologian<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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