"The image a society has of itself can play a crucial role in the shaping of its future. If we fill our minds with images of gloom and destruction, then that is likely to be the way we are headed. Conversely, more optimistic attitudes can actually help promote a better world. A positive vision is like the light at the end of a tunnel, which, even though dimly glimpsed, encourages us to step on in that direction."
The Global Brain, Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness - Peter Russell
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"Your Providence, O Lord, is so great that You take care of all Your creatures as if there were only one, and You take care of each one as if all others were enclosed in it." St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi
Following the Holy Spirit
(Rev. Walter Van DePutte)
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"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)
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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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"The truth is that the Foresight and Providence of the Lord is in the very minutest of all the particulars." Emanuel Swedenborg
A Compendium of the Theological Writings of Emanuel Swedenborg
(Samuel M. Warren, compiler)
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"Divine providence includes every ripple that has been sent into the universe by every person who has ever lived and every event that has ever taken place."
God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism
(Rabbi David A. Cooper)
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"God, the great Creator of all things, does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures, actions, and things from the greatest even to the least, by his most wise and holy providence." Westminster Confession of Faith
Living Quotations for Christians
(Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)
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"The transcendent Source continually sustains and supports all being, as it holds all parts together in dynamic relationship with the whole."
Ancient Wisdom, Modern Insight
(Shirley Nicholson)
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"After all, it is God who acts. It is the whirlwind of his saving power that we find ourselves caught up in, embraced by."
A Retreat With St. Bonaventure
(Leonard J. Bowman)
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"Simple common sense precludes the possibility that the universe is the result of mere chance."
Isis Unveiled
(Helena P. Blavatsky)
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"The inner dwelling….is like the home of a rich father, and the human soul like a tender son, who is reared in his father's house with as much care as he is dearly loved." Hugh of St. Victor (ca. 1100-1141), 'De Vanitate Mundi', Bk. 2
Pathways of the Inner Life, An Anthology of Christian Spirituality
(Georges A. Barrois, editor)
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"An infinitely wise Being perfectly comprehends within his understanding and constant view the universality of things, in all their extent and duration, and sees all the influence of every event, with respect to every individual thing and circumstance throughout the grand system." Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), American preacher and philosopher
A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1
(Dagobert D. Runes, editor)
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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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"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)
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"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)
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"The enduring truths of this ancient wisdom include the idea of levels or dimensions of reality and consciousness, reaching from matter to body to mind to soul to spirit, with Spirit fully and equally present at all of these levels as the Ground of the entire display. Each senior level transcends and includes its juniors, so that this Great Nest is a holarchy of extended love and compassionate embrace, reaching from dirt to Divinity, with no corner of the Kosmos left untouched by grace or care or luminosity."
Integral Psychology: Consciousness, Spirit, Psychology, Therapy
(Ken Wilber)
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"History is the revelation of providence." Lajos Kossuth
Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations
(Frank S Mead, editor)
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"On the deepest level, there is nothing wrong with what is going on now. Your life is perfect and you picked it. Once you experience the truth of that statement day after day, you will know who you are. Your life is perfect and you picked it….The Wholeness of you has gone through an incredible amount of trouble to get you to just where you are, hoping you will pay attention to what is happening in the moment. The perfect place to be is wherever you are."
Reflections of an Elder Brother: Awakening from the Dream
(Mary-Margaret Moore)
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"To praise this divinely benificent Providence you must turn to all of creation. It is there at the center of everything and everything has it for a destiny. It is there 'before all things and in it all things hold together (Col. 1:17)."
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"There exists no accidental happening; everything obeys the one law."
The History of Magic and the Occult
(Kurt Seligmann)
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“Nothing possessed of being lies outside the workings of Providence.”
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Complete Works
(John Farina, Editor-in-Chief)
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"Each breath is carrying us all the way home into God, from whom each breath comes."
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God
(James Finley)
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"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)
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"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))
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"The law of nature is the same as the eternal law implanted in rational creatures, and inclining them to their right action and end; and can be nothing else but the eternal reason of God, the Creator and Ruler of all the world." Pope Leo XIII, 'Libertas Praestantissimum', June 20, 1888
The Book of Catholic Quotations
(John Chapin, Editor)
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"The earth's intelligence is articulated in and through us, and we are part of the world-dream that guides all other living things."
A Passion for This Earth, Exploring a New Partnership of Man, Woman & Nature
(Valerie Andrews)
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