He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
I do not know any way to explain why God's grace touches a man who seems unworthy of it.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
He Who is your Lord, the All-Merciful cherisheth in His heart the desire of beholding the entire human race as one soul and one body.
There is a god within us.
God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.
God is not distant: he is 'Emmanuel,' God-with-us. He is no stranger: he has a face, the face of Jesus.