Aliyah’s Reviews > The Good God: Enjoying Father, Son and Spirit > Status Update

"Without Jesus the Son, we cannot know that God is truly a loving Father. Without Jesus the Son, we cannot know him as our loving Father. But as Luther discovered, through Jesus we may know that God is a Father, and 'we may look into His fatherly heart and sense how boundlessly He loves us. That would warm our hearts, setting them aglow.'"

"The beautiful, loving holiness of this God makes true godliness a warm, attractive, delightful thing. It is not about becoming more mean and pinched, for this God is not mean and pinched. Holiness for God, said Edwards, 'is as it were the beauty and sweetness of the divine nature,'... And most essentially, to know and enjoy the God who is love means becoming, like him, loving."

"That is, God is simply bursting with warm and life-imparting nourishment, far more willing to give than we are to receive."

"He himself [Richard Sibbes] was adamant that it is our view of God that shapes us most deeply. We become like what we worship."

"He himself [Richard Sibbes] was adamant that it is our view of God that shapes us most deeply. We become like what we worship."

"For eternity, the Father so loves the Son that he excites the Son's eternal love in response; Christ so loves the church that he excites our love in response; the husband so loves his wife that he excites her to love him back. Such is the spreading goodness that rolls out of the very being of this God."