The perfection of his relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defects, all our evils; for our childhood is born of his fatherhood. 

The God who is ever uttering himself in the changeful profusions of nature; who takes millions of years to form a soul that shall understand him and be blessed...

How terribly, then, have the theologians misrepresented God as a great King on a grand throne....The simplest peasant who loves his children and his sheep were a true type of our God compared to that monstrosity of a monarch.

Better pleasing to God.... is the audacity of Job,..... like a troubled, perhaps angry, but yet faithful child, calls aloud in the ear of him whose perfect Fatherhood he has yet to learn....

"...in the face of the Lord himself, the childhood will be triumphant—all his wisdom, all his truth upholding that radiant serenity of faith in his father..."

What is the kingdom of Christ? A rule of love, of truth—a rule of service. The king is the chief servant in it. “The kings of the earth have dominion: it shall not be so among you..... It is like king, like subject in the kingdom of heaven.  No rule of force, as of one kind over another kind. It is the rule of kind, of nature, of deepest nature—of God.

...it is for the revelation of God to all, that they may be saved by knowing him, and so becoming like him, that a child is set before them in the gospel.

Childhood belongs to the divine nature. Obedience, then, is as divine as Will, Service as divine as Rule. How? Because they are one in their nature; they are both a doing of the truth. The love in them is the same.