RE Quotes - Qualities of God

Omnipotent (God is able to do anything and everything as God has the capabilities to do so. God's powers are limitless as God is not restrained by anything. )

'Nothing is impossible with God.' (Christianity: Luke 1:37)

Omniscient (God knows how to create anything and everything without any assistance. God does not need to learn anything, God has the knowledge to do all.)

'Behold, God is infinite, all-knowing… and when He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it 'Be' - and it is.' (Islam: Qur'an 2:115-117)

Benevolent (In Christianity it is believed that God's greatest act of love was sending God's Son, Jesus, to Earth to be crucified. They believe this showed agape as Jesus' sacrifice enabled human beings to enter heaven. (agape = selfless sacrificial love))

'For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.' (Christianity: John 3:16)

Immanent (As God is with humans anywhere they are, God must be present on and involved with live on earth otherwise God wouldn't be able to be with you. God has to be part of the earth in order to do this. )

'He is with you wherever you are.' (Islam: Qur'an 7:180)

Transcendent (If God is timeless, God cannot be part of this world as time exists within this world. Therefore God must be beyond and outside life on earth.)

'There is but one all-pervading spirit, and it is called the truth, It exists in all creation, and it has no fear, It does not hate and, it is timeless, universal and self-existent!' (Sikhism: Mool Mantar in the first passage of the Guru Granth Sahib)

Personal (To know things about a person, such as where one is or what their thoughts might be, means that you have a relationship with them. If God does this, it means that God is an individual that people are able to have a relationship with or feel close to.)

'You have searched me, LORD, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.' (Christianity: Psalm 139: 1 - 2)

Impersonal (Human words or language cannot comprehend God. Therefore the idea of God is unknowable to humans.)

'No vision can grasp Him…He is above all comprehension.' (Islam: Qur'an 6:103)