His strength is inflicted toward gentleness, His justice tempered with mercy, and all his attributes held in solution of love.
No longer should medievalism becloud God's gentle face.

Cleanse your thoughts, as once the artist in Milan cleansed the grime and soot from the wall where Dante's lustrous face was hidden.
With shouts and transports of joy and admiration men welcome the patriot or hero who in times of danger held the destiny of the people in his hands and never once betrayed it.

And let each intellect soar without hindrance, and the heart pour itself out before God in a freshet of divine love.

Great is the genius of Plato or Bacon, revealing itself in tides of thought, but greater and richer is the genius of the heart that is conscious of vast, deep fountains of love, that may be poured forth in generous tides before the God whose throne is mercy, whose face is light, whose name is love, whose strength is gentleness, whose considerateness is our pledge of pardon, peace and immortality.
THE THUNDER OF SILENT FIDELITY: A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF LITTLE THINGS.
"We treat God with irreverence by banishing Him from our thoughts, not by referring to His will on slight occasions.

His is not the finite authority or intelligence which cannot be troubled with small things.
There is nothing so small but that we may honor God by asking His guidance of it, or insult Him by taking it into our own hands; and what is true of Deity is equally true of His Revelation.