God's goodness

"Arminius based his whole theology on metaphysical realism in which ‘God is not “freely” good because God is good by nature.’ This may seem to Calvinists to limit God, but for Arminius and his followers it only means that God’s goodness is as fundamental to this nature as his power. In fact, Witt [in Creation, Redemption and Grace in the Theology of Jacob Arminius, page 292] avers, Arminius thought that Calvinism tended to limit God by making the world necessary for God’s self-glorification: ‘The transcendent God of voluntarism “needs” a creation over which to be sovereign every bit as much as the God of immanentism “needs” a creation in which to be present.’”— Arminian Theology, page 89