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PROVIDENCE
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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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"There are always those at every epoch in human history who are able to solve the problems which arise, and who are sent in for that very purpose."
Esoteric Psychology I
(Alice A. Bailey)
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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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"Divine order makes itself known in all areas of our lives."
Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential
(Caroline Myss)
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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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"Between those two points, from the Big Bang, at the beginning of time – to the Big Crunch, at the end of time – all the matter in the universe appears, expands to a maximum point, and then contracts again into nothing. And through it all, an ultimate intelligence – call it what you will – guides and directs the various activities of everything in the universe – including all living life forms – in unfathomable, unseen ways." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph. D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics'
Experiencing the Soul
(Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)
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"The esoteric [Tibetan] teaching coincides with that of the ancient Greek and Egyptian mystics: 'As below, so above'; which implies that there is one harmonious law governing with unwavering and impartial justice the visible as well as the invisible operations of nature." W. Y. Evans-Wentz, introduction
Tibetan Book of the Dead
(W Y Evans-Wentz, translator)
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"Providence is the care God takes of all existing things." John of Damascus
Living Quotations for Christians
(Sherwood Eliot Wirt and Kersten Beckstrom, editors)
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"Divine providence consists of the dispositions by which God guides all his creatures with wisdom and love to their ultimate end."
Catechism of the Catholic Church
(Various)
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"The fulness of joy is to behold God in everything, for by the same blessed power, wisdom and love that he made everything, our good Lord leads it to the same end continuously, will himself bring it there,…and we shall see it."
Revelations of Divine Love
(Juliana of Norwich)
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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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"This little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator….God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation."
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
(Manly P. Hall)
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"Providence knows more of what is best for us than we ourselves."
A Book of Angels
(Sophy Burnham)
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"All things that come to pass by nature come to pass according to Providence, and there is no place destitute of Providence."
Hermetica
(Walter Scott, translator)
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“The God who has hung our solar system in space, and has poured His life into it that we and His other creatures might come into being, superintends the progress of that tremendous Experiment with benevolent, paternal interest.” Charles W. Leadbeater, 'Science of the Sacraments'
Divine Light and Fire, Experiencing Esoteric Christianity
(Peter Roche deCoppens)
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"I walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore I trust in Him." Izaak Walton
One Thousand Inspirational Things
(Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler)
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"The world – in all of its particularity and peculiarity, in each of its nooks and crannies – is filled, every moment and in the most intimate way possible, with the sustaining presence of God."
Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master
(Robert Barron)
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"God in His faithfulness gives each man what is best for him….For God in His Godhood sees each thing as it is at its best." Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)
The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics
(H. A. Reinhold, editor)
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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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"A certain primary everlasting and infinite nature rules everything." Eximundus
Alchemy, The Art of Transformation
(Jay Ramsay)
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"In every particle, atom, molecule, cell of Matter there lives hidden and works unknown all the omniscience of the Eternal and all the omnipotence of the Infinite." Sri Aurobindo, Eastern sage
The Relevance of Bliss
(Nona Coxhead)
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"The Holy Spirit shepherds everyone and rules all the powers, the 'tame' ones and the 'wild' ones, as well as those which are unique." The Gospel of Philip (3rd century Christian Gnostic sacramental catechism),
The Other Bible
(Willis Barnstone, editor)
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"Why not keep within psychology proper what once was called providence – being invisibly watched and watched over?"
The Soul's Code
(James Hillman)
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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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"In man and in the mind of man, in the world and in all growing things, in history and in events, in everything there is God."
The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians
(William Barclay)
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