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We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

It is not a mark of manhood to carelessly use the name of the Almighty or of His Beloved Son in a vain and flippant way, as many are prone to do.

God's people are peculiar. Their spirit cannot mingle with the spirit and influence of the world. You do not wish to bear the Christian name and yet be unworthy of it.

I don't say what God is, but a name That somehow answers us when we are driven To feel and think how little we have to do With what we are.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'