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PROVIDENCE
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"We are, in a very true sense, wrapped around with God, penetrated by divinity, held up every instant by divine power that saturates all of reality and exceeds it…God is everywhere in the world as the soul is everywhere in the body; where God is not, nothing is."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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“The world moves in accordance with a divine power and is, in itself, god.” Manilius
Arcana Mundi
(Georg Luck)
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"The parent of the universe fixed for eternity the causes whereby He keeps all things in order." Martin Luther
Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations
(Margaret Pepper, editor)
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"God governs all His creatures in goodness." St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Abbess, visionary
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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"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)
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"The whole world is ruled by the Providence of God….It is the Divine Mind which directs all the activities and movements of all creatures."
My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone
(Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)
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"Is He not closer than the vein of your neck? You need not raise your voice, for He knows the secret whisper, and what is yet more hidden….He knows what is in the land, and in the sea; no leaf falls but He knows it; nor is there a grain in the darkness under the earth, nor a thing, green or sere, but it is recorded."
God, A Companion for Seekers
(David Schiller)
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"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.)
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"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)
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"Our Father stands guardian over his children, great and small alike, protecting them in love."
Regents of the Seven Spheres
(H. K. Challoner)
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"Who else calls us back from the death of every error except that Life which cannot die, that wisdom which needs no light itself but enlightens every mind that needs it, by which the whole world is ruled, down even to the quivering leaves on the trees."
Confessions
(St. Augustine)
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"Although wayward chance and irrational necessity are real and have their place, they exist within a greater structure informed and governed by the universal intelligence."
The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
(Richard Tarnas)
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"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)
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"Divine Wisdom guides the vibration of every atom as well as the swing of the planets, the life of the least of us as well as the destinies of nations."
Reincarnation: A Hope of the World
(Irving S. Cooper)
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"An all-wise providence has placed at the disposal of the human race all that is necessary to ensure peace, happiness, health, and security."
Healing: The Divine Art
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Providence connects each one with its proper order." Boethius, quoted by Thomas Aquinas
The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon, vol. 1
(Mortimer J. Adler, editor)
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"Protective power is always and ever present within the sanctuary of the heart and even immanent within, or just behind, the unfamiliar features of the world. One has only to know and trust, and the ageless guardians will appear."
Hero With A Thousand Faces
(Joseph Campbell)
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"The existence of the planet Earth is far from a random accident in an indifferent cosmos."
The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality
(Richard Leviton)
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"Life watches you and Life is intelligent and considerate….Life is earnest and tender. Life is dramatic and moving toward glory."
Saint Germain on Alchemy
(Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)
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"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)
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"There is not even a wrinkle in time that does not bear the obvious impress of God's own good providence."
The Christian Almanac
(George Grant & Gregory Wilbur)
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"God is always moving, ruling and giving being and virtue and grace and gifts to all creatures, containing them all in Himself, virtually, presentially and substantially."
Living Flame of Love
(St. John of the Cross)
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“Nothing is left to chance, everything happens according to a cosmic scheme.”
Arcana Mundi
(Georg Luck)
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"As St. Dionysios says, 'All things participate in the providence that wells forth from the Godhead, the Cause of all.'" St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science'
The Philokalia, volume 4
(various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)
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"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought." George Macdonald
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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