"It is a poor speaker of French who thinks in English and translates as he goes; the true master of tongues thinks as he talks. He is a Frenchman in France and a German in Germany; why, he may find himself dreaming in German or in French. The shape, the idiom of the Creator’s thought is the very shape and idiom of his creature’s existence. God’s thought of man is human, for he thinks man as he is. It is true that his thought of man stretches man, and reaches out into possibilities undreamt by us; but these possibilities are still human. God’s thought for us extends into the heaven he has prepared for us; but heaven itself is a human state; it is the state of man-in-glory. God’s thought of lions is lionlike, and of sparrows sparrow-like; and elementary things that have neither life nor sense are thought and willed by him exactly as they are or as they go."Austin Farrer, God is not dead (New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1966), 74. God is not dead was first published in Great Britain as A science of God?
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