God in Christianity

In Christianity, God is believed to be the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. Most Christians believe in a monotheistic, trinitarian conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). Most Christians believe in a singular God that exists in a Trinity, which consists of three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Christian teachings on the transcendence, immanence, and involvement of God in the world and his love for humanity exclude the belief that God is of the same substance as the created universe (rejection of pantheism) but accept that God the Son assumed hypostatically united human nature, thus becoming man in a unique event known as "the Incarnation".

Quotes

Arranged chronologically

• Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven, Give us this day our daily bread: And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us: And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.
  • Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9 and Luke 11:2 (BCP)

• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
  The same was in the beginning with God.
  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
  In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
  And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
  • John 1:5 (KJV)

• For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
  • John 3:16 (KJV)

• God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
  • John 4:24 (KJV)

• There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13 (KJV)

• Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
  And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  • Philippians 2:5-11 (KJV)

• For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
  • Hebrews 4:12 (KJV)

• Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
  • James 1:17 (KJV)

• The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
  • 2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)

• And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
  • Revelation 21:3 (KJV)

• Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost;
  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end.
  • Gloria Patri in English (BCP); compare the doxology derived from Thomas Ken's "Morning Hymn" in Manual for Winchester Scholars (1695; rev. 1712):
    Praise God, from whom all blessings flow,
    Praise Him all Creatures here below,
    Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host,
    Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

• Batter my heart, three-person’d God; for you
  As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
  That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend
  Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
  I, like an usurp’d town, to another due,
  Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
  Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
  But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
  Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
  But am betroth’d unto your enemy;
  Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
  Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
  Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
  Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
  • John Donne, Holy Sonnets (1633), Sonnet XIV

• Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
    Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
    By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
  Believing where we cannot prove;
  Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
    Thou madest Life in man and brute;
    Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
  Is on the skull which thou hast made.
  Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
    Thou madest man, he knows not why,
    He thinks he was not made to die;
  And thou hast made him: thou art just.
  • Alfred Tennyson, preface to In Memoriam A.H.H. (1850)

• Man’s word is God in man.
• The King will follow Christ, and we the King
  In whom high God hath breathed a secret thing.
  • Alfred Tennyson, "The Coming of Arthur", Idylls of the King (1859)