God a Thinker
S. Herren. Isaiah 55:8-9 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, said the LORD.… "I think, therefore I am, was the formula in which the great mind of Descartes found peace. We may reverently adapt it, and say, "God thinks, therefore God is;" and the proof that He thinks is the great universe around us bearing, everywhere the marks of a designing hand. The quality of any mind is determined by its product. The rare quality of the mind of Shakespeare found expression in "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," that of Milton in "Paradise Lost," and that of Tennyson in the "Idylls of the King." Stephenson demonstrated the wonderful mechanical power of his brain in the production of the steam engine, and Edison has shown what he thinks by inventing the telephone and phonograph. You stand and gaze with reverential awe at St. Paul's, with its lofty dome, its magnificent portico, its beautiful windows. What is it? A church. Yes, a church in the heart of the busiest city in the world; a constant witness to the hurrying, bargain-making crowd, that man does not live by bread alone. It is a fine building — a veritable poem in stone — begrimed by the smutty fingers of old Father Time, but strangely weird and solemn, as I have seen it bathed in the moonlight, with the mighty city sleeping around it, silent and still, or at least as still as London ever is. It is one of the peep-holes through which London gets a view of Heaven. But it is something more. It is the visualized thought of a great man; mute witness to the fact that mind is the great thing in the world. Sir Christopher Wren thought cathedrals, they were on his brain, he saw them before a single stone was laid, and then he selected one and put it on paper and said to the builder, "Now go to work. Put this thought of mine in stone, and let it stand there in the midst of the city; so that all men may see the kind of thing my brain is capable of producing. So this world, so full of wondrous forms and lovely colours, is but the outward expression of the thought of God. (S. Herren.) Parallel Verses KJV: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. WEB: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," says Yahweh.