The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
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We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is revealed in His word and His works. The beautiful things of nature reveal His character and His power as Creator.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.
It connects with the theologians' point that you can say what God is not, but not (easily) what He is.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
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.
Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim.
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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