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1		"He who from zone to zone guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight….In the long way that I must tread alone will lead my steps aright." William Cullen Bryant, 'To A Waterfowl' The Healing Power of the Bible (Agnes Sanford)

2		"All-embracing providence shows me at each moment, by the day's events, the next step to take and the next rung to climb." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

3		"Behind the dim unknown stands God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." James Russell Lowell, 'The Present Crisis' Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

4		"Spirit is both the very highest wave (purely transcendental) and the ever-present ground of all the waves (purely immanent), going beyond All, embracing All. The Great Nest is a multidimensional latticework of love – eros, agape, karuna, maitri – call it what you will, it leaves no corner of the Kosmos untouched by care nor alien to the mysteries of grace." Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy (Ken Wilber)

5		"At the heart of Plato's conception of the world was the notion of a transcendent intelligence that rules and orders all things." The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View (Richard Tarnas)

6		"I walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore I trust in Him." Izaak Walton One Thousand Inspirational Things (Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)

7		"In some time, His good time, we shall arrive; He guides me and the bird in His good time." Robert Browning, 'Paracelsus' Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

8		"The bird is in the air, the stone lies on the land, the fish lives in the water, and my spirit is in God's hands." Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), 'Cherubinic Wanderer', vol. 1 Mystics after Modernism (Rudolf Steiner)

9		"The world is not in the hands of greedy politicians or terrorists or corporate moguls or fundamentalists praying for Armageddon. The world is in the hands of God." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

10		"To praise this divinely benificent Providence you must turn to all of creation. It is there at the center of everything and everything has it for a destiny. It is there 'before all things and in it all things hold together (Col. 1:17)." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

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		"Your Providence, O Lord, is so great that You take care of all Your creatures as if there were only one, and You take care of each one as if all others were enclosed in it." St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi Following the Holy Spirit (Rev. Walter Van DePutte)

13		"Providence arranges everything, so all is right in the end." In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

14		"Then she (Philosophy personified) said…I assert that there is no such thing as chance and I declare that chance is just an empty word with no real meaning. For what place can be left for purposelessness when God puts all things in order?" Boethius (ca. 480-524), Roman philosopher, 'The Consolation of Philosophy' The Great Thoughts (George Seldes, compiler)

15		"Divine order makes itself known in all areas of our lives." Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (Caroline Myss)

16		"God, the great Creator of all things, does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence." Westminster Confession of Faith Living Quotations for Christians (Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)

17		"In the great corporeal world, which appears in different forms, of air, earth, sea and fire, a divine soul does rule, a deity does govern wisely." Marcus Manilius, 'Astronomy to Augustus', modernized The History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann)

18		“Nothing is left to chance, everything happens according to a cosmic scheme.” Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

19		"The earth's intelligence is articulated in and through us, and we are part of the world-dream that guides all other living things." A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature (Valerie Andrews)

20		"The very regularity of the laws of nature is a sort of revelation through which man can recognize the existence of a provident God." The Angels and Their Mission, According to the Fathers of the Church (Jean Danielou, S.J.)

21		"Between those two points, from the Big Bang, at the beginning of time – to the Big Crunch, at the end of time – all the matter in the universe appears, expands to a maximum point, and then contracts again into nothing. And through it all, an ultimate intelligence – call it what you will – guides and directs the various activities of everything in the universe – including all living life forms – in unfathomable, unseen ways." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph. D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

22		"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)

23		"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)

24		"After all, it is God who acts. It is the whirlwind of his saving power that we find ourselves caught up in, embraced by." A Retreat With St. Bonaventure (Leonard J. Bowman)

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