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!
One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries.
The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Though Destiny a hundred times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in Heaven. It is God's loving kindness to terrify you,in order to lead you to His Kingdom of safety.
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