The following are portions taken from George MacDonald in the book "Discovering the Character of God":
"Our Lord was, is, and ever shall be divinely childlike. Childhood belongs to the divine nature...In our unbelief we are careful over the divine dignity, of which he is too grand to think. Better pleasing to God is the audacity of Job, who rushing into God's presence and flinging the door of his presence-chamber to the wall like a troubled - or it may be even angry, yet faithful - child, cries out to him whose perfect Fatherhood Job is in the process of learning.
"The devotion of God to his creatures is perfect. He does not think about himself but about them...
"In this is God like the child: that he is simply and altogether our friend, our father - our more than friend, father, and mother - our infinite love-perfect God. Grand and strong beyond all that human imagination can conceive of poet-thinking and kingly action, he is delicate beyond all that a human tenderness can conceive of husband or wife, homey beyond all that human heart can conceive of father or mother...
"Therefore, with angels and archangels, with the spirits of the just made perfect, with the little children of the kingdom, yea, with the Lord himself, and for all them that do not yet know him, we praise and magnify and laud his name in itself, saying Our Father..."
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