For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that divine forces are associated with certain responsibilities, overseen by angels.
This quote by Maimonides implies that there is a divine order to responsibilities in the world, wherein every task or force entrusted by God is accompanied by an angelic being to guide and oversee it. It emphasizes the belief in a higher power that orchestrates the affairs of humanity, ensuring that every undertaking has a celestial influence to support it.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of fulfilling one's duties faithfully.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.
God who preceded all existence is a refuge.
When man possesses a good, sound body that does not overpower him nor disturb the equilibrium in him, he possesses a divine gift. In short, a good constitution facilitates the rule of the soul over the body, but it is not impossible to conquer a bad constitution by training.
If the whole earth is infinitely small in comparison with the sphere of the stars, what is man compared with all these created beings!
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Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind passes over it, bends.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening as they rose and for one blessed moment, one blessed tiny instant, the songs of Heaven resounded down the tunnel as if its curves were not made of wind but of something solid that could echo these ethereal songs, and their organized rhythm, their heartbreaking beauty piercing the catastrophic suffering of this place-Lestat
The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.
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