strange and beautiful eccentricity

"It is a strange and beautiful eccentricity of the free God that He has allowed His heart to be emotionally identified with men. Self-sufficient as He is, He wants our love and will not be satisfied till He gets it. Free as He is, He has let His heart be bound to us forever. 'Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loves us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.' says Julian of Norwich, 'that it over-passeth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and His help, stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness."

~from Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer