God's Character

What Are People Saying About God?

What Are People Saying About God?

“Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.”

– Hans Urs Von Balthasar

"God is like Jesus. God has always been like Jesus. There's never been a time when God was not like Jesus. We haven't always known this, but now we do."

– Brian Zahnd

"If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever."

– Woody Allen

"Love… is the revelation of God. And the revelation of God is Jesus Christ."

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"The Character and rule of God is manifested when instead of employing violence against his enemies to crush them, Jesus loves his enemies in order to redeem them."

– Greg Boyd

"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction:… a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic,… pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

– Richard Dawkins

"God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is Truth, not untruth. God alone is great… God rules even where satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God’s sufferance."

– Mahatma Gandhi

"God works in mysterious, efficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways."

– Penn Jillette

"John was right, ‘God is love.’ He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality… Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth, and goodness."

– Martin Luther King Jr.

"The ultimate question is whether the doctrine of the goodness of God or that of the inerrancy of Scriptures is to prevail when they conflict. I think the doctrine of the goodness of God is the more certain of the two. Indeed, only that doctrine renders this worship of Him obligatory or even permissible."

– C. S. Lewis

"Why doesn’t He [God] just obliterate the devil and therefore get rid of evil in the world?"

– Bill Maher

"How easy we find it to think of God as hard, austere, severe, unable to be pleased and fierce… How easily Satan deceives us! Was it not his purpose from the beginning to inject such thoughts of God into our hearts?"

– John Owen

"Nothing counts more in the way we live than what we believe about God. A failure to get it right in our minds becomes a failure to get it right in out lives."

– Eugene Peterson

"You will never find a more relieved person in all the world than me when I discovered that God was just like Jesus Christ."

– Eugenia Price

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

– A. W. Tozer

Check out the new documentary Dorothee and I were involved in. This film explores the relationship between Christianity and American nationalism and violence.

"Servant God" Audiobook by Jim Weiss

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