Description of Illustration: Adam and Eve by Kathy Grimm, black and white line drawing of couple surrounded by flowers, petals, tree of life, snake
Thought About Who God Is:
“Christ’s thought of God was that of a being clothed with
matchless simplicity and beauty. He affirmed that God is man’s Father, who made His earthly child in His own
image; that man is a miniature of the Divine Being; that
what reason and judgment and memory and love are in the
small in man, they are in the large in the great God. . .
Christ revealed God as the world’s great burden-bearer full
of an exquisite kindness and sympathy; that what He was
through thirty-three years, God is through all the ages;
that what He was to publican and sinner in Bethlehem, God
is for all maimed and wrecked hearts in all worlds; that no
human tear falls but that God feels it; that no human blow
smites the suffering heart but that God shrinks and suffers;
that with wistful longing He follows the publican and the
prodigal, waiting for the hour when He may recover the
youth to his integrity, or lead the man grown gray in sin
back to his Father’s house.” —N. D. Hillis.
