Maimonides Quotes

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

There is no uncreated being except God. God has no opposite.

The signs, proofs, and evidences of Divine unity are incalculable.

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

God has neither form nor color. He is incorporeal and immense. Whatever is seen in the world describes his greatness.

All of it is God, and there is nothing else.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

The person that I most admire is Jesus Christ. He is the only perfect Person. There is simply no comparison. The difference between Him and all other men is not merely quantitative, but qualitative. He is in a category all to Himself.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them.

God is the transcendent whole of things of which you are an individualized part.

The highest God and the innermost God is one God.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Like the ocean is your god-self; It remains for ever undefiled. And like the ether it lifts but the winged. Even like the sun is your god-self; It knows not the ways of the mole nor seeks it the holes of the serpent. But your god-self does not dwell alone in your being. Much in you is still man, and much in you is not yet man, But a shapeless pigmy that walks asleep in the mist searching for its own awakening.

Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

All the religions of the world say God is the creator. If he is really the creator, then the only way to meet him will be to become a creator in some measure.

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

There exists no God. What exists is godliness, and that godliness surrounds you. We are all in the same ocean.