Principles Of Human Knowledge - pg. 31

Berkeley felt that the materialist conception of the world kept God at far too great a distance from us. It leads us to think of God as hidden behind te world he has created rather than as revealed in it; he is at best the product of an inference. For Berkeley, thiswas not the way in which the Holy Scriptures (the Bible, that is) thought of things at all. He wanted a God who is close to us at every moment of the day, in everything we do. And his system provides exactly that. God is present to us in every waknig moment, since every experience we have is an idea caused in us by him. So the God whose existence he sets out to prove is 'a being whose spirituality, omnipresence, providence, omniscience, infinite power and goodness, are as conspicuous as the existence of sensible things'. His favourite quotation from the Bible speaks of a God 'in whom we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:28).'