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1 "Our Father stands guardian over his children, great and small alike, protecting them in love." Regents of the Seven Spheres (H. K. Challoner)

2 "God strengthens, but draws forth our own last bit of strength. God guides, but we think we're wandering blindly." A Retreat With St. Bonaventure (Leonard J. Bowman)

3 "The instinctive force inherent in the Higher Self does the work, and the driving force of evolution carries all on to perfection." Letters on Occult Meditation (Alice A. Bailey)

4 "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)

5 "Providence knows more of what is best for us than we ourselves." A Book of Angels (Sophy Burnham)

6 "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)

7 "There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow." William Shakespeare, 'Hamlet', Act V, sc. 2,1.232 Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

8 "There is a 'higher' power guiding us even in moments of greatest distress." Rama Vernon, President of the Center for International Dialogue, 'Manifesting the Vision' The Fabric of the Future (M. J. Ryan, editor)

9 "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)

10 "The Divine Presence and Providence surrounds and embraces our temporal organisms." The Meaning of Masonry (W. L. Wilmshurst)

11 "We find ourselves at every moment situated at the exact point at which the whole bundle of inward and outward forces of the world converge providentially upon us, that is to say at the one point where the divine milieu can, at a given moment, be made real for us." The Divine Milieu (Pierre Teilhard deChardin)

12 "The Divine holds our hand through all and if he seems to let us fall, it is only to raise us higher." A Greater Psychology, An Introduction to Sri Aurobindo's Psychological Thought (Sri Aurobindo, edited by A. S. Dalal)

13 “The Soul sees in the Divine light how considerately, and with what unfailing providence, God is ever leading it to its full perfection, and that He does it all through pure love.” St. Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510), sister of the Annunciation Order The Soul Afire, Revelations of the Mystics (H. A. Reinhold, editor)

14 "A gardener or farmer plants his seeds underground and, in due course, the new plants appear and complete their cycle of growth, which is generally consummated in the production of more seeds. The One Life, the One Law and the One Energy, to which the name 'God' has been given, would seem similarly to provide for the innermost selves of humanity the conditions necessary for the germination and development of their limitless, but at first seed-like deific powers. These conditions have some analogy with those provided for the seed of a plant when it is planted in the soil." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

15 "He who watches over the birds, beasts and insects, He who cared for you whilst you were yet in your mother's womb, shall he not care for you now that you have come forth?" Kabir (1440?-1518), Indian Sufi master, 'One Hundred Poems of Kabir' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

16 "We can in our own little lives be utterly certain that God always has an alternative, in which the one purpose for which we are here may be fulfilled, if other ways fail." Fr. Andrew, 'The Way of Victory' Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

17 "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.)

18 "God who created everything also rules everything….God's power is loving." Catechism of the Catholic Church (Various)

19 "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)

20 "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.)

21 "This is the sum and substance of it all – God is, God loves you, God bears all your care." Tukaram (1608-1649) Indian poet God, A Companion for Seekers (David Schiller)

22 "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)

23 "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)

24 "What we call 'God' continues to create – with infinite intelligence – every billionth of a billionth of a second, now, and for billions and billions of years to come. What is created with and in this perfect Intelligence reflects and modifies everything at every instant and at every level. This happens from the smallest electron to the largest galaxy – including all forms of life in the universe." Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D., 'The Soul and Quantum Physics' Experiencing the Soul (Eliot Jay Rosen, editor)

25 "The Force that created us knows what it is doing. Behind the apparent entanglements and difficulties of our life there is a cosmic conspiracy unfolding. It's always there – behind our clouded judgments and discomforts – and it can be trusted." Christopher H. Jackson, 'Zeal: A Fuel for Spiritual Pioneering', New Thoughts for a New Millennium (Michael A. Maday, editor)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite