Full Idea
God, asserts Spinoza, is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone.
Gist of Idea
God is wholly without passions, and strictly speaking does not love anyone
Source
report of Baruch de Spinoza (The Ethics [1675]) by John Cottingham - The Rationalists p.179
Book Reference
Cottingham,John: 'The Rationalists' [OUP 1988], p.179
A Reaction
This seems to me a much more plausible conception of God than the anthropomorphic one of him as the perfect parent who dotes on his offspring.