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1 "Free Will is inherent in this creation, and is the birthright and heritage of each soul." A Million Years to the Promised Land (Robert W. Krajenke)

2 "By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

3 "Our highest goal is the full release of our personal will into the 'hands of the Divine.' Jesus and Buddha, as well as other great teachers, represent the mastery of this state of consciousness, complete union with Divine will." Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (Caroline Myss)

4 "The will of God is the universal cause of all things; it is impossible that the divine will should not produce its effect." Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas (Anton C. Pegis, editor)

5 "All the manifold manifestations of wonderful things are going on by the simple supreme will of God, and all of them are subordinate to that supreme will." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

6 "If it be asked what is the test of knowledge concerning Divine Will, there is one answer only, namely, that it becomes known in love." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

7 "The free will does not go into a state of restful oblivion and wait for God to do everything….The free will brings the personality under the direction of the receptive soul, so that the inner voice can make its wordless message felt." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

8 "The divine will is not a restriction imposed on us, a destiny from which we cannot escape: it is a loving reality far more benevolent, and far more effective on our behalf, than our own will could ever effect." The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

9 "The will of the Maker, in His goodness, wills beings always to exist and always to receive His blessings." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Third Century on Love' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

10 "Will-to-good has carried all creation on toward a greater glory and a steadily deepening, intelligent responsiveness." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

11 "There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

12 "Nothing whatsoever can happen without Divine Providence having foreseen it and having made it fit into His plans beforehand. No obstruction in the whole world can possibly prevent the will of God from being carried out." The Secret of the Rosary (St. Louis DeMontfort)

13 “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)

14 "The two inner impulses – to expand and to harmonize – arise from within the Spirit-Self of man, which is identical with the Spirit-Self of the universe." Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy? (Geoffrey Hodson)

15 "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)

16 "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)

17 "If one accepts that all of nature, and everything in the universe, operates according to the will of God, and that nothing works contrary to his purposes, then one must also accept that the angels and daimones, heroes – all things in the universe – are subject to the will of the one God who rules over all." Origen, 'Contra Celsum' The Origin of Satan (Elaine Pagels)

18 "The Will….is a three-dimensional act of the total organism to globally move in time towards some future end….The Will itself is an act of the person's total being. The Will is a moving prehension. It is an intentionality." Spectrum of Consciousness (Ken Wilber)

19 "God is irresistibly present to the will precisely as the ground of the will, precisely as the ultimate good that is always desired in any concrete act of the will." Introduction Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master (Robert Barron)

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

21 "The goal of the myth is to dispel ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will." Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

22 "No thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share one Will." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

23 "Synthesis is an attribute of the divine will and the outstanding quality of Deity." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

24 "A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is…the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

25 "The sum of all things being the Good, it is natural that all things should partake of the Good and be arranged in combinations that are harmonious. Harmony is the manifesting expression of the Will of the eternal Good." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

26 "Spiritual will is the transcendent principle within us which forms as it were the very heart and core of our being." T. K. Taimni The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

27 "All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will. This is because NOT doing it is a denial of Self." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

28 "You are enveloped in God's will as a soul is enveloped in a body, or water is enveloped by air, or the universe is enveloped by the galaxy." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

29 "When the will of man is aligned with the will of God, the light of God does not fail to precipitate that will in the fullness of time, space, and opportunity." The Sacred Art of Listening (Kay Lindahl)

30 "Innate in all evolving life, is the eternal attraction toward attainment of archetypal perfection. This will-to-perfection is imperative in evolution, having been ceaselessly active throughout the universe from the beginning. It provides the orientation that guides Nature in the slow evolution of all forms and species toward their fulfillment." James S. Perkins, 'The Rhythmic Return to Equilibrium' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

31 "Without you there would be a lack in God….for what God wills is whole, and part of Him because His Will is one." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

32 "There is such a thing as the 'unconscious will' of the higher Self which tends always to bring the personality in line with the over-all purpose of the spiritual Self." Roberto Assagioli, contemporary author, 'Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

33 "The Will of God seeks to accomplish itself through our human will as the self-expression of our essence." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

34 "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)

35 "God's will is found in the chambers of the heart." Who Do You Think You Are? The Healing Power of Your Sacred Self (Carlos Warter, M.D., Ph.D.)

36 "It is God's will that moves all things, brings all things into existence, sustains them." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'Fifth Century of Various Texts' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

37 "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)

38 "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)

39 "Nothing but the laws of God has ever been, and nothing but His will will ever be." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

40 "Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile." Mother Teresa of Calcutta Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

41 "Motivation and free will are more important than behavioral determinism in shaping the course of human life." A God Within (Rene Dubos)

42 "No leaf on the tree stirs but by God's will." Miguel deCervantes (1547-1616), Spanish novelist God, A Companion for Seekers (David Schiller)

43 "The law of God and also the way to life is written in our hearts; it lies in no man's supposing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well doing." Jacob Boehme (1571-1624), 'The Confessions' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

44 "Our peace is in the good will that is inflamed by God, and in harmony with the Divine will." Dante and the Mystics (Edmund G. Gardner)

45 "Magnified and sanctified be His great name in the world which he has created according to His will." Aramaic prayer The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

46 "All is God's will, not individual will." The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist's Guide to Enlightenment (Amit Goswami, Ph.D.)

47 "Groups are forming now in their thousands and are to be found in every land, and they will eventually blend and fuse together into one great movement of goodwill, which is spirit in actual expression." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

48 "Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

49 "All individual acts of the will rest upon, depend upon, the final and all-embracing desire for the good itself – which is none other than God." Introduction Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master (Robert Barron)

50 "If the Will of God is seen with sufficient intensity and realism it positively transforms the universe. It animates and softens all that we suffer; it stimulates and directs all that we initiate; it abolishes chance. It makes it possible for us to live, physically and for ever, within the divine Unity." Writings in Time of War (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

51 "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)

52 "We must willingly cooperate with the intentions of evolution and spiritual destiny. Our moral failure to develop spiritual cognition would render this future barren." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

53 "The will toward mystery has an urge to unite, to love and be loved, to enter into the mystery of self and other. To go past such duality to the One that lies beyond thought or thinker, to the heart of the unspeakable wholeness and delight that patiently awaits our inward arrival." Turning Toward the Mystery: A Seeker's Journey (Stephen Levine)

54 "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)

55 "A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale and exhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit." Ralph Waldo Emerson The Glorious Presence (Ernest E. Wood)

56 "The will of the Logos is man'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 till tomorrow, but always in the end His will is done." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

57 "God's will may not come to you in verbal or visual messages, or as anything you can articulate. It might just come as a deeply felt sense of where to go, what to do and how to act in the world from moment to moment. Clues might arrive in dreams, reveries or flashes of intuition, or in synchronistic meetings and moments, like a seemingly chance encounter with another person or a passage in a book you open in a random instance." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

58 "As long as we doubt that happiness and God's will are the same thing, we tend to decide against ourselves." The Gift of Change, Spiritual Guidance for a Radically New Life (Marianne Williamson)

59 "Why should I not tirelessly concentrate on searching into the mystery of His glorious will, which I know I must obey in all thinsg?....We are transformed when we are conformed." Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Sermon on the Song of Songs', 62.5 Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

60 "You must know your soul to be endowed with free will, and to be God's fairest work in the image of himself, its maker." Cyril of Jerusalem, 'The Catechetical Lectures' Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa (William Telfer, Editor)

61 "Everywhere the will of God reigns supreme." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

62 "The divine will is the wholeness, the good and the true in all things. Like God, the universal Being, it is manifest in everything." Jean-Pierre deCaussade (1675-1751), French priest and author Devotional Classics (Richard J. Foster and James Bryan Smith, editors)

63 "The Father-Ground of all Creation is the selfless giving Will which gives us all and each our very being." Charles Lawrie, 'Doctor Stone: Walter Stein and the Holy Grail' The Household of the Grail (John Matthews, editor)

64 "God's will embraces the totality of our development and faith. Trust and love are the keys that open us to the fullness of God's will for us." The Mystic Hours, A Daybook of Interspiritual Wisdom & Devotion (Wayne Teasdale)

65 "We (may) aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Compensation' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

66 "In the function of willing burns the fire of the future." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

67 "These two powers – unfoldment from less to more and reharmonization – operate irresistibly upon man, as upon all else that exists. Man can delay or hasten, but he cannot ultimately frustrate these two functions of the cosmic Will." Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy? (Geoffrey Hodson)

68 "St. John of Damaskos writes, 'The creation is an operation of the divine will.'" St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

69 "Every part of creation is of one order. This is God's Will and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

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

71 "In God's will is our peace." Anonymous Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

72 "The goal of all the initiatory process is to admit mankind into realisation of and identification with the will or purpose of Deity." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

73 "God's Will is one, not many. It has no opposition, for there is none beside it." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

74 "We must regain our respect for our uniqueness of mind and power of will so that we may utilize them to aid us in examining and selecting the most sound and growth-producing alternatives among the many choices the future will offer." Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

75 "There is but one Spiritual Will in the Cosmos, and the Will-Self of man is an embodiment thereof. Full recognition of this fact is the highest vision, and its ratification in action is the secret of well-being." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

76 “The source of it all is the Divine Will.” Theatre Chemicum, II Collected Works (Carl Jung)

77 "The rulers thought they did all they did by their own power and will, but the Holy Spirit was secretly accomplishing all through them by the Spirit's will." The Gospel of Philip The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Marvin Meyer)

78 "For apart from You nothing is done, and without Your will nothing is known." The Thanksgiving Scrolll Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation (Wise/Abegg/Cook, editors)

79 "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)

80 "The Divine Will, Wisdom, the Spirit, the Word or Logos, or whatever else we like to call it, permeates the cosmos, giving it both form and life." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

81 "The mind of God is love, and the love of God is intelligence, and these two aspects of one great quality are brought into play for the working out of His will and purpose." The Light of the Soul (Alice A Bailey)

82 "We will wake ourselves up inwardly through our own willed activity, and through this life redeem thinking." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

83 "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)

84 "Free will is always part and parcel of the present life." St. Gregory Palamas, 'To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

85 "In the inmost heart of our being knowledge is love and love knowledge, while our true will is the creative power which springs from their union and which makes them one in action." The Flame and the Light (Hugh I'anson Fausset)

86 "Our will life is based upon the fact that human nature is embedded in the cosmic whole so that what happens in us through our will is also simultaneously a part of the whole cosmic process." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

87 "The Neter (Nature) is alive, it will always act in the rhythm of its nature but will adapt itself harmonically to ambient conditions." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)

88 "The will is a penetrating power which relates Plan to Purpose and which has in it the faculty of coherent persistence. The reason for this persistence is that it is not dependent upon the content of the form – whether it is the form of an atom, of a man or of a planet – but upon a vital dynamic and immutable purpose, latent in the consciousness of the Being Who 'having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment' of Himself, remains – greater…and firmer in intent than any of His creations, even the most advanced." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

89 "Every process, every movement from the circling of stars to the vibration of a gnat's wing, is not only under the complete control of God, but also occupies his entire consciousness as if it were the only thing that was happening." Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

90 "If we are actively helping in the progress of all, we are living in God's will, which penetrates nature, and this is felt by nature at once." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

91 "All is well, and the seed of God reigns over all, and over death itself." Last words of George Fox (1624-1690), founder of the Quakers Last Words of Saints and Sinners (Herbert Lockyer)

92 "The tools of illumination are the will to know, the will to love and the will to serve." Wu Li Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

93 "Meaning and purposefulness are not the prerogatives of the mind; they operate in the whole of living nature." Carl G. Jung, 'Man and His Symbols' The Strong Eye of Shamanism, A Journey Into the Caves of Consciousness (Robert E. Ryan, Ph.D.)

94 "As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

95 "Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

96 "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)

97 "Love is the result of an identification – the identifying of our wills with the will of God, and our fate with that of all men, however obscure, fallen and needy." Rose Terlin, contemporary American editor and writer, 'Christian Faith and Social Action' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

98 "I know that in Your hand is the inclination of every spirit….You Yourself have formed the spirit…and from You is the way of all life." The Thanksgiving Scroll Dead Sea Scrolls, A New Translation (Wise/Abegg/Cook, editors)

99 "Each time we make use of our free will by giving, we are in copartnership with the infinite Bestower. When this is accomplished with clear awareness of what we are doing, we raise the consciousness of creation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

100 "It is God's Will that constitutes the existence of all things that are." Libellus IX:2 Hermetica (Walter Scott, translator)

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