GOD-EMOTIONS
All of God’s emotions,
including His love in all its aspects, cannot be divorced from God’s knowledge,
God’s power, God’s will. If God loves,
it is because He chooses to love; if He suffers, it is because He chooses to
suffer. God is impassible in the sense
that He sustains no “passion,” no emotion, that makes Him vulnerable from the
outside, over which He has no control, or which He has not foreseen.
The Difficult Doctrine of
the Love of God, Crossway, 2000, p. 60.
God hath but three things
dear unto Him in this world, His saints, His worship, and His truth; and it is
hard to say which of these is dearest unto Him.
Thomas Goodwin
A Puritan Golden Treasury,
compiled by I.D.E. Thomas, by permission of Banner of Truth, Carlisle, PA.
2000, p. 301.