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1		"The will of God is the measure of things." Ambrose (340-397), Bishop of Milan The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

2		"Man has something in his soul, a something that will tear the veil apart that he may see the world of real things….This Holy Breath knocks at the door of every soul, but cannot enter in until the will of man throws wide the door." ch. 44, v. 21 & 23 Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (Leo W. Dowling)

3		"Truth is God's Will. Share His Will and you share what He knows. Deny His Will as yours, and you are denying His Kingdom and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

4		"The nature of things is not subject to human power, but only to divine power, whose will all things obey." Thomas Aquinas, ST II-II, q. 66, a. 1 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

5		"God is master of history, governing hearts and events in keeping with his will." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

6		"It is God's will that is done, forever and ever." Guru Nanak (1469-1539), Indian disciple of Kabir, 'Hymns of Guru Nanak' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

7		"One must be able to judge one's own actions and impulses of will with the same objective detachment as one can judge the actions and impulses of will of another." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner)

8		"It is not God's Will to be without you….The Will of God is without limit, and all power and glory lie within it. It is boundless in strength and in love and in peace. It has no boundaries because it created all things. By creating all things, it made them part of itself. You are the Will of God because that is how you were created." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

9		"A liberated person is stable in the wisdom that all is God's will and that one is not separate from God." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

10		"All things are manifestations of His Will." Guru Nanak (1469-1539), Indian disciple of Kabir, 'Psalms and Devotions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

11		"I have capitalized the word 'Nature' because it is the Numen in manifestation, the expression of God's law and will." Laurence J. Bendit, 'The Incarnation of the Angels' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

12		"You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5 The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (Deepak Chopra)

13		"The most perfect work of love, and the fulfillment of its activity, is to effect an exchange between those it joins together, which in some measure unites their distinctive characteristics and adapts their respective conditions to each other. Love makes man god, and reveals and manifests God as man, through the single and identical purpose and activity of the will of both." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century of Various Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

14		"Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

15		"Because we have free will, we can choose to behave in ways that either enhance or hinder the movement of creation toward perfect completion in the divine." Spiritual Genius, The Mastery of Life's Meaning (Winifred Gallagher)

16		"The will remains free. The lawfulness of things makes the present state the product of prior acts, but within the present the will is influenced but not controlled. People remain at liberty to shape their destinies." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

17		"We become united with the divine will by our own voluntary consent." Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Divine Grace and Free Choice' Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

18		“The evolution of life is not an accident; it has been shaped and guided by forces that possess intelligence and purpose.” The Occult, A History (Colin Wilson)

19		"All mankind are the work of one Will." Clement of Alexandria, 'On Spiritual Perfection' Alexandrian Christianity (John E. L. Oulton, editor)

20		"The will-to-good is the basic quality of divine purpose, involving planned activity and a definite goal to be achieved." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

21		"The benevolent will of God…desires only good and not evil." I Ching or The Book of Changes (Richard Wilhelm, translator)

22		"The glorious imagery of the gifted artist, the divine harmonies of the inspired musician, the keen mentality and patience of the scientist, the profundity of the philosopher, the wisdom of the born teacher – all these powers, and many more, lie hidden within us awaiting the time when we shall arouse them with the magic of the will." Reincarnation: A Hope of the World (Irving S. Cooper)

23		"The will of the Logos is humanity's evolution. In our blindness we may for a time resist Him, but to Him time is naught, and if we cannot see today, He waits patiently until tomorrow, but always in the end His will is done." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

24		"All things, I say, are in God, and everything which takes place takes place by the laws alone of the infinite nature of God." Ethics (Benedict Spinoza)

25		"Contemplate within yourself the implications of Goodwill as they are carried out by a conscious Humanity. Make a plan as to how you may demonstrate Goodwill in your own way in the world." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)