A Quote by Maimonides

Management [ Providence ], knowledge, and intention are not the same when ascribed to us and when ascribed to God.

Maimonides

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God Intention Knowledge Management Providence Same Us

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Maimonides
Spanish - Philosopher
March 30, 1135 - December 12, 1204

So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.

John Steinbeck

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

W. Somerset Maugham

All attributes ascribed to God are attributes of His acts, and do not imply that God has any qualities.

Maimonides

The mystery of God's providence is a most sublime consideration. It is easy to let our reason run away with itself. It is at a loss when it attempts to search into the eternal decrees of election or the entangled mazes and labyrinths in which the divine providence walks. This knowledge is too wonderful for us. Man can be very confident that God exercises the most accurate providence over him and his affairs. Nothing comes to pass without our heavenly Father. No evil comes to pass without his permissive providence, and no good without his ordaining providence to his own ends.

Ezekiel Hopkins

The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family and begin to see your own childhood from a different angle. You remember. You reassess. I think that was the kernel of the novel for me. This idea that you change but that your family, the people you were born into, might find that change hard to accept. You no longer fit the mold you've always been ascribed. When the adult children in the book converge back on their small family home there's a sense that they don't fit there anymore.

Maggie O'Farrell

I think an editing style is something that is ascribed to the work after-the-fact. I don't think you go in with a particular intention, but I think if there is an integrity to the work and the material you are working with, the work comes from the nature of that material.

Jay Cassidy

Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinion, and not fixed by nature.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Charles Spurgeon

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure?

Jeremy Bentham

When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity.