Maimonides Quotes

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.

For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Newton was a judaic monotheist of the school of Maimonides

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

I think God rarely gives to one man, or one set of men, more than one great moral victory to win.

What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.

I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel

Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

God's ways are behind the scenes, but He moves all the scenes which He is behind.

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end?

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

He (God) usually prefers to work through people rather than perform miracles, so that we will depend on each other for fellowship.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me