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1		"Through nature, of which we are a part, we can discover the immanence of the metaphysical Creator within the creation." The Hidden Face of God: How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth (Gerald L. Schroeder, Ph.D.)

2		"Maybe you are asking where this house of God is to be sought, and where it may be found. God's house is the whole world." Hugh of St. Victor (1096-1141), German monk and writer The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

3		"The process of seeing and experiencing more and more of God is never-ending. That's the joy of it." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

4		"All beings and all things are filled with the indwelling Life or Fire of God." Geoffrey Hodson, 'The Greater Gods' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

5		"Every detail of creation has the potential for infinite meaning, because the presence of the Infinite God is beneath the surface waiting to be revealed." Eliezer Shore, 'The Heart of Ritual' Parabola, the Magazine of Myth and Tradition (various)

6		"Human consciousness cannot help manifesting itself as a process, as expressing an innate purposiveness, which leads it to experience a greater informing force." The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness (Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D.)

7		"Not until we recognize the Divine Immanence, the light of the Goddess in matter, can we hope to establish a balance, a reconnection with our own deepest nature that can root us in a world of meaning and imagination." Dancing in the Flames, The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness (Marion Woodman and Elinor Dickson)

8		"Yet of God's being who shall be able to speak? Of how He is everywhere present and invisible, or of how He fills heaven and earth and every creature, according to that saying, 'Do I not fill heaven and earth? Says the Lord'…The Spirit of God, according to the prophet, has filled the round earth." Columbanus (540-615), Irish monk The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

9		"Buddhahood is equally ever-present in the hearts of all sentient beings as their potential for the realization of liberation and enlightenment." Namakai Norbu, 'The Cycle of Day and Night' Shadows of the Sacred: Seeing Through Spiritual Illusions (Frances Vaughan, Ph.D.)

10		"The entire world is a divine scripture, unfolding like cosmic prayer." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

11		"For primal peoples, because the landscape itself is sacred it therefore embodies a divinity that it shares with everything that is part of nature, including human beings, animals, plants, rocks….everything." Jamake Highwater One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

12		"I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, in the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God's name." Walt Whitman, 'Leaves of Grass' Myths To Live By (Joseph Campbell)

13		"Man, the image and likeness of God, the very expression of God, is one with the Presence; but only his recognition of his oneness will bring unity into his experience." Drawing the Larger Circle, How to Love and Be Loved (Jack and Cornelia Addington)

14		"God does not ignore man, but acknowledges him to the full, and wills to be acknowledged by him. And this alone, even the knowledge of God, is man's salvation; this is the ascent to Olympus; and by this alone can a soul become good." Libellus X:15a Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

15		"Every little thing can be a gateway to infinity." The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

16		"The journey downwards into our own inner nature is the way to God….In this realised divinity there is eternal joy." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

17		“According to St. Thomas Aquinas there is an intellectual light innate in man, which by ‘participated likeness’ is capable of knowing the first principles.” Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

18		"I am completely at one with God. At the same time, the totality of this God-Self is in every creature equally, not merely a part of it, but wholly." The Transforming Mind (Laurence and Phoebe Bendit)

19		"For you, as for everyone, there is only one road that can lead to God, and this is the fidelity to remain constantly true to yourself, to what you feel is highest in you. Do not worry about the rest. The road will open before you as you go." Letters to Two Friends: 1926-1952 (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

20		"All living creatures reflect the same Universal Intelligence." Paul and Blanche Leonard, Introduction The Language of Silence (J. Allen Boone)

21		"Find the divine within yourself." Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey (Phil Cousineau, editor)

22		"From the second you incarnate, your soul is in dialogue with divinity, and it is expressing and experiencing its own divinity instinctively." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

23		"The only cause of all created things, whether heavenly or earthy, whether visible or invisible, is the goodness of the Creator, the one true God; and nothing exists but Himself that does not derive its existence from Him." St. Augustine (354-430) A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)

24		"The treasure house of divinity is within ourselves." Sant Rajinder Singh, president of the World Fellowship of Religions, 'Inversion' A Parliament of Souls, In Search of Global Spirituality (Michael Tobias, Jane Morrison, Bettina Gray, editors)

25		"The whole Universe is filled with the pure, motionless, formless spirit of creative and pure Divinity." Encyclopedia of Ancient and Forbidden Knowledge (Zolar)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite