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1		"The heavens above, and the procession of the seasons as they month by month walk among the stars, are various manifestations of God." Henry Ward Beecher Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

2		"All forms veil a divine thought, idea, or truth and are the tangible manifestation of a divine concept." From Intellect to Intuition (Alice A. Bailey)

3		"It is in you yourself that God is hidden and it is in you yourself that you must find Him. He is there, within you, no less than in those in whom He appears to be incarnated in a more dazzling fashion. Every man is Krishna, every man is Buddha." The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

4		"God brings man to perfection according to the way of man's own nature, working from what is lowest and most exterior up to what is most interior and highest." Ascent of Mount Carmel (St. John of the Cross)

5		"The art, or wisdom, or Word of almighty God is the form of all creatures. For it is at the same time both the exemplar and the efficient and formal cause preserving things in the form given them, until created things are directed and recalled to it." Robert deGrosseteste, 'De unica forma omnium' Aurora Consurgens (Marie Louise vonFranz)

6		"Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbits and the tides." Charles Henry Parkhurst, 'Sermons: Pattern in Mount' Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

7		"In connecting to the divine in others, we connect to God." Invisible Acts of Power: Personal Choices That Create Miracles (Caroline Myss)

8		"Indeed, every creature is a glittering, glistening mirror of divinity." One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

9		"We are ever in the presence of God." The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

10		"There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God… - Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims his glory." John Newton Encyclopedia of Religious Quotations (Frank S Mead, editor)

11		"The process of seeing and experiencing more and more of God is never-ending. That's the joy of it." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

12		"Our minds have a natural desire to know the truth of God and the causes of things, in just the same way as our eyes have a natural desire for light and our bodies for food." Gregory Thaumaturgus (c.213-270), early missionary in Turkey The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

13		"If we could only see ALL that this moment really is, we would see God loving us into being." Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God (James Finley)

14		"All life down to its smallest element, can, if rightly approached, be seen as a reflection of the infinite source of holiness, which is God." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

15		"The signs of the Beloved I see in all creatures." Romancing God: Contemplating the Beloved (Ramon Lull)

16		"In each of us resides direct connection to spiritual guidance." Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture (Christina Baldwin)

17		"This Awareness-I-am (and the reader is) is the perception of the Divine Mind." The Child Within Us Lives!, A Synthesis of Science, Religion and Metaphysics (William Samuel)

18		"To the heart that is responsive to the suffering of the world, to the active mind aspiring to wisdom, to the intuition that is awake, the Divine Presence is ever revealed, the Divine Voice forever speaks." Reincarnation: Fact or Fallacy? (Geoffrey Hodson)

19		"In the dynamic flow of life, thoughts are forever being exchanged between the Great Mind and the small mind….between God and you." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

20		"This urge to see God must run deep in us. 'What I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years', wrote Mahatma Gandhi, 'is to see God face to face.'" Ecstatic Journey, The Transforming Power of Mystical Experience (Sophy Burnham)

21		"The visible marks of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation, that a rational creature who will but seriously reflect on them cannot miss the discovery of deity." John Locke (1632-1704), English philosopher The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

22		"All things, high or low, sacred or profane, are fully and equally perfect manifestations or ornaments of Spirit, of Buddhamind." Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber (Ken Wilber)

23		"The times when God seems absent are also the times God is close, tangible and real." Rev. William Grimbol Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

24		"At any given moment, everything we need is there. All the lessons are there. All the love we need is there. We don't have to look outside ourselves; the source is within and always present, always there." Andrew Weil, M.D., 'A Loving Prescription' Handbook for the Heart, Original Writings on Love (Richard Carlson and Benjamin Shield, editors)

25		"Recognize God as the great fact of the universe, separate from no place or part, but revealed in all places and in all things and events, moment by moment." Rev. Thomas C. Upham (1797-1872) Daily Strength for Daily Needs (Mary Wilder Tileston, Compiler)