Rather, what appear to be individuated bodies are only modes of substance under the attribute of Extension.[10] Only in Part Two does Spinoza show that Extension (as well as Thought) are in fact attributes of God: "Thought is an attribute of God, or [sive] God is a thinking thing" (2P1) and "Extension is an attribute of God, or [sive] God is an extended thing" (2P2).
He and the men and women who worked with him were scientists, interested in puzzling out how things work, how the universe is put together; thinking God's thoughts after Him.
She wrote: "To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics".
The album, as quiet as God's thoughts, is unique and irresistibly affecting.
I loved her music from the first time I heard her first solo album "Little Earthquakes," and here she is with her 1994 hit "God": Your thoughts?
On the other hand religious belief that ignores the role of reason in religion is mere superstition and will result in bigotry and atheism, for "an Irrational Religion can never Rationally be conceived to come from God" (Occasional Thoughts, p. 36).
Rereading Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God my thoughts danced around early 20th century rural Florida.
And he is famous for having said, "I want to know God's thoughts -- the rest are details".
Whether it's self doubt, guilt over past wrongs or just feeling inadequate, learn to recognize those aren't God's thoughts, they're the enemy's way of keeping us from joy, peace and success.
"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose". Florence Nightingale (nurse and pioneer in the use and presentation of statistics, 1820 1910).
