Divine Simplicity Quotes

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“It is divine simplicity that enables Christians to meaningfully confess that God is most absolute in his existence and attributes. adherents to this doctrine reason that of God were composed of parts in any sense he would be dependent upon those parts for his very being and thus the parts would be ontologically prior to him. If this were the case he would not be most absolute, that is, wholly self-sufficient and the first principle of all other things. Thus, only if God is" without parts "can he be" most absolute. "God without parts, pg. 9-10”
James E. Dolezal

Philo of Alexandria
“They have been instructed by nature and the sacred laws to serve the living God, who is superior to the good, and more simple than the one, and more ancient than the unit; with whom, however, who is there of those who profess piety that we can possibly compare?”
Philo of Alexandria, The Works of Philo

Philo of Alexandria
“For of virtues, the virtues of God are founded in truth, existing according to his essence: since God alone exists in essence, on account of which fact, he speaks of necessity about himself, saying," I am that I Am, "as if those who were with him did not exist according to essence, but only appeared to exist in opinion.”
Philo of Alexandria