Ineffably Good, Beautiful, and Loving Beyond Human Comprehension

A quote from Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M. Marsden. 

"A crude interpretation of Jonathan's experience might suggest that his vision of God was a cosmic projection of his father. While there is always a grain of truth in such reductionist observations, the essence of the matter is nearly the opposite. So long as Jonathan's God was substantially a projection of his father or of other human analogies, he could not believe. If God were simply a cosmic version of the greatest imaginable human, God would still be by human standards a capricious and unreasonable tyrant, the father whose love turned out to be petty control, harsh judgments, tenderness mixed with fits of anger, unyielding disciplines, and punishments. In fact, it was only when Jonathan's vision expanded to appreciate that the triune God who controlled this vast universe must be ineffably good, beautiful, and loving beyond human comprehension that he could lose himself in God."

- pp. 42-43