Mencken
At last, someone has brought in the Sage of Baltimore as the authority he was. His "American Language" with its numerous supplements was a truly scholarly work, one not expected from a journalist and mostly polemic columnist. I'll have more to say eventually about old H.L.

On the subject at hand, there is a line from a hymn [which begins, "Just as I am without one plea"] that refers to the "length, breadth, heigth" of God's love.