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title: "3 Describing God Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-moore-cross/if-i-had-to-choose-between-the-two-ways-of-approaching-the-deity-i/)

[Frank Moore Cross](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-moore-cross/)

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> [ The negative way \[of describing God\] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-h-smith/the-negative-way-of-describing-god-is-a-cardboard-prop-of/)

[George H. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-h-smith/)

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> [The Bible itself does not seem too bothered by the idea that talking of God suffering might in any way diminish God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-j-h-wright/the-bible-itself-does-not-seem-too-bothered-by-the-idea-that-talking/)

[Christopher J. H. Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-j-h-wright/)

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