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1		"With the wonderful love with which God loves us, He ever guards us and turns all that concerns us to His greater glory and to the good of our souls." St. Alphonsus Rodriguez (1531-1617) Letters From the Saints (Claude Williamson, Compiler)

2		"Is there such a thing as chance? I don't think so. There's more, there's always more. Call it grace, call it synchronicity, but I think of it as God telling us that at the deepest level everything is scripted, of saying there are no accidents!" The Way Things Are (Huston Smith, edited by Phil Cousineau)

3		"From Brahman...on down to the smallest ant, all entities are existing because the Supreme Lord has entered and is sustaining each." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

4		"There are no accidents, but only intentional designs." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

5		"Everything in some way partakes of the providence flowing out of this transcendent Deity which is the originator of all that is. Indeed nothing could exist without some share in the being and source of everything. Even the things which have no life participate in this, for it is the transcendent Deity which is the existence of every being." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

6		"From the Lord's Prayer (Thy will be done) to the Taoist idea of 'wu-wei' (action through nonaction), the consensus among spiritual masters is that to come into full ownership of our being we have to abandon ourselves to divine providence." Michael Grosso, 'The Cult of the Guardian Angel' Angels and Mortals, Their Co-Creative Power (Maria Parisen, compiler)

7		"God is all things; from him are all things; and all things are dependent on his will, and on his inimitable wisdom." Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

8		"Even force which is turned to destructive ends can and does finally work towards good, for the trend of the evolutionary force is unalterable, being based on the Will-to-good of Divinity Itself." The Destiny of the Nations (Alice A. Bailey)

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

10		"His transcendent power is inexpressible, unknowable, inconceivably great, and, as it flows over, it empowers whatever is weak and it preserves and directs the humblest of its echoes….God's infinite power is distributed among all things and there is nothing in the world entirely bereft of power….The benefits of this inexhaustible Power reach out to humans, to animals, to plants, and indeed to all of nature." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

11		"In a marvelous and mysterious way, an Overtruth takes care of our affairs." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

12		"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)

13		"Providence occurs everywhere." Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works (John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)

14		"The world became a living creature truly endowed with soul and intelligence by the providence of God." Plato, 'Timaeus' The Essential Plotinus (Translated by Elmer O'Brien, S.J.)

15		"Nothing can exist and act of its own power, but every creature acts of necessity by the power of God, the first moving cause, the first principle and origin of every action, Who acts in every active being." On Union With God (Albertus Magnus (St. Albert the Great))

16		"Your unfailing Providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live." The Book of Common Prayer In Silence: Why We Pray (Donald Spoto, Ph.D.)

17		"There is no such thing as 'chance.' The universe does nothing by accident." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

18		"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)

19		"You are watched over and guided down to the smallest detail of your life." Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul (Caroline Myss)

20		"All of the elements are held intimately and lovingly in the hand of Spirit." 366 Celt: A Year and A Day of Celtic Wisdom and Lore (Carl McColman)

21		"In God's hand is the life of every living thing, and not only of the animals, but also the breath of all humanity." Thomas Aquinas, In Job 12, pp. 52-53 Sheer Joy, Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (Matthew Fox)

22		"Universal Intelligence [is] the organizing, structuring principle at work behind nature, imposing order and purpose on the entire cosmic process." Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight (Shirley Nicholson)

23		"The government of the world is the execution of the Providence of God." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

24		"There exists no accidental happening; everything obeys the one law." The History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann)

25		"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)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite