"This new book is an amazing example of how a collection of articulate, educated people deeply committed to differing religious faiths can agree on a concept that has never even occurred to most of us. And, yet the concept is so obvious." -Vivian Ruskin, a journalist who is related to Mark Twain
"God expresses his love in the metaphors of the family, both father and mother." -Ravi Zacharias, international evangelist
"God's love for us is like the deep love a mother has for her newborn, like the protective love a mother has for her sick three-year-old child, like the unconditional love a mother has for her cantankerous 18-year-old." -Anne Lamott, New York Times best-selling author
"All three persons of the Godhead reveal paternal and maternal qualities in their relationship with us. They are one in essence...The paternal aspect of God is a combination of authority and care; the maternal quality is one of loving support." -J.I. Packer, general editor, English Standard Version Bible
"When God created men and women to be like him, women are half of the equation--we are half of the picture." -Ruth Graham, author, daughter of Billy Graham
"The Old Testament prophets used the analogy of the "womb" to disclose how God gently "shelters us" and "carries us in compassionate love." -Pope Benedict XVI
