For many years in my own pilgrimage of seeking to come to a place of trusting God at all times…I was a prisoner to my feelings. I mistakenly thought I could not trust God unless I felt like trusting Him (which I almost never did in times of adversity). Now I am learning that trusting God is first of all a matter of the will and is not dependent on my feelings. I choose to trust God, and my feelings eventually follow…If we are to trust God, we must choose to believe His truth. We must say, “I will trust You though I do not feel like doing so.

Jerry Bridges, Trusting God: Even When Life Hurts, 209

God is the sum total of all excellencies as the one than whom no greater, higher, and better can exist, either in thought or reality. God is exalted above all shortcomings and limitations.

Herman Bavinck, Doctrine of God, 246.