Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

What men call accident is God's own part.

I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.

I would say that the study of history is that which gives man the greatest optimism, for if man were not destined by his Maker to go on until the Kingdom of Heaven is attained, man would have been extinguished long ago by reason of all man's mistakes and frailties.

To modify the conditions of the Earth's movement is beyond the powers of man. It is not given to mankind to change the order established by the Creator in the system of the Universe.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet bursting with evolutionary possibilities, a continuing creation in which the Divine providence is manifest in every living thing. I see a science that tells us there is indeed a design to life.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness .... It is in this view that I subscribe to the doctrine of manifest destiny.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

Everything happens within God's perfect plan.

Created in the awesome image of God, men and women know that life has a meaning beyond 'eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.'

God do everything for a reason.

Time is not of man; it is of God.

All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.