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1		"Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

2		"Nothing under the sun is accidental." Gotthold E. Lessing (1729-1781), German dramatist, 'Emilia Galotti' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

3		“The Soul sees in the Divine light how considerately, and with what unfailing providence, God is ever leading it to its full perfection, and that He does it all through pure love.” St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), sister of the Annunciation Order The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

4		"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought." George Macdonald One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

5		"What we call 'God' continues to create – with infinite intelligence – every billionth of a billionth of a second, now, and for billions and billions of years to come. What is created with and in this perfect Intelligence reflects and modifies everything at every instant and at every level. This happens from the smallest electron to the largest galaxy – including all forms of life in the universe." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

6		"God has a care for every living thing. He numbers stars, and suns, and moons; He numbers angels, men, and everything; the birds, the flowers, the trees; the very petals of the rose he knows by name, and every one is numbered in his Book of Life; and every hair upon your head, and every drop of blood within your veins, he knows by number and by rhythm." ch. 109, vs. 21-24 Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

7		"Just as the seed determines the future ways and stages of growth, so the Good Shepherd decides the ways of development of the true being of mankind and leads them along these ways." Covenant of the Heart, Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Valentin Tomberg)

8		"A gardener or farmer plants his seeds underground and, in due course, the new plants appear and complete their cycle of growth, which is generally consummated in the production of more seeds. The One Life, the One Law and the One Energy, to which the name 'God' has been given, would seem similarly to provide for the innermost selves of humanity the conditions necessary for the germination and development of their limitless, but at first seed-like deific powers. These conditions have some analogy with those provided for the seed of a plant when it is planted in the soil." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

9		"For every essential energy within us, there is potentially an equal, opposite energy to balance it – for example, doing and being, giving and receiving, power and vulnerability. The more we can develop and embrace these opposites of life within ourselves, the more conscious, integrated, and balanced we become. Life is always guiding us in the direction that will help us develop the qualities that we most need." The Path of Transformation, How Healing Ourselves Can Change The World (Shakti Gawain)

10		"God is your supply, not the vine nor the tree, nor the soil nor other human beings, nor the kingdoms of nature. God is your source of supply." The Findhorn Garden: Pioneering a New Vision of Man and Nature in Cooperation (The Findhorn Community)

11		"God is the All; and there is nothing that is not included in the All. Hence there is neither magnitude nor place nor quality nor shape nor time beside God; for God is all, and the All permeates all things." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

12		"The course of nature governs all! The course of nature is the heart of God." Edward Young, 'Nighr Thoughts', Night IX, 1. 1280 Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

13		"Good heavens! Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence, to a humble and grateful mind." Epictetus, Works, book 1. ch. 16, Carter-Higginson translation Varieties of Religious Experience, The (William James)

14		"The soul has been stationed inside the work of the Lord's hands." Hildegard of Bingen, Mystical Writings (Fiona Bowie and Oliver Davies, editors)

15		"The Lord, situated in the hearts of all living entities, directs their senses." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

16		"Who else calls us back from the death of every error except that Life which cannot die, that wisdom which needs no light itself but enlightens every mind that needs it, by which the whole world is ruled, down even to the quivering leaves on the trees." Confessions (St. Augustine)

17		"The world – in all of its particularity and peculiarity, in each of its nooks and crannies – is filled, every moment and in the most intimate way possible, with the sustaining presence of God." Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master (Robert Barron)

18		"Divine Order is a force that works constantly to restore balance in our lives." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss)

19		"God governs all His creatures in goodness." St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Abbess, visionary The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

20		"Tangibility is the product of the Intangible, therefore the body of us will find itself cared for as certainly as the oak and willow, as surely as the laurel and lily. By whom or What? By the same Ineffable for whom the body of humanity blossoms. How do I know this is so? Because I have lived it so, am living it so NOW and KNOW it is so." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

21		"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

22		"All basic and fundamental changes taking place upon the physical plane are necessarily the result of inner subjective causes, emanating from the divine consciousness." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

23		"An all-wise providence has placed at the disposal of the human race all that is necessary to ensure peace, happiness, health, and security." Healing: The Divine Art (Manly P. Hall)

24		"The one Universal Law guides unerringly." H. P. Blavatsky, 'TheTheosophical Glossary' Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

25		"There is a higher power which shapes the destiny of all, and the individual can rely on this power." The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)