I don't think it can be expressed in size as if God can easily be conformed to our imagination. To even begin to consider the bigness of God in terms of greatness is to first look at the vastness of the universe. Some have tried this method, and while I think it is fascinating and helpful, this only begins to express God's glory.
Imagine a standard grid used to plot numbers.
--- Us
<---------------------------> God
We are limited by depth of field to the visible portion of the line, yet the line representing God is beyond finite, so we cannot plot God as anything limited to the grid.
God's glory is also expressed by His goodness and holiness. A fuller understanding of the term 'holiness' removes God from the grid and then makes Him author of the grid and your line. The paradox to God not being on the grid is that God is still active on the grid, multi-directional, yet separate from the grid. If we were to speak of God as the grid, then everything becomes divine, polytheistic, and worthy of worship. God's glory sets Him apart as the only thing worthy of worship.
"The God of the Bible is not an ontological black hole, so to speak, but rather a "white hole" of infinitely dense and concentrated reality that can spew forth a universe at the moment of the big bang creation. Neutron stars, stars that have collapsed catastrophically but that have not yet reached the black hole state, are said to have such a dense concentration of neutrons at the core that all the molecules in Mount Everest could be concentrated in a space the size of a teaspoon. The image of an intensely and densely concentrated star suggests the analogy of God as an "neutron star" of being - more intensely and densely real than anything in our ordinary human imagination and experience."
John Jefferson Davis. Worship and the Reality of God. pp. 50
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