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1		"Every part of creation is of one order. This is God's Will and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

2		"The will of the Logos is humanity's evolution. In our blindness we may for a time resist Him, but to Him time is naught, and if we cannot see today, He waits patiently until tomorrow, but always in the end His will is done." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

3		"The will of God, the wil of the Higher, is the will of your Real Self." Saint Germain on Alchemy (Mark L. and Elizabeth Clare Prophet)

4		"If we knew how to greet each moment as the manifestation of the divine will, we would find in it all the heart could desire….The present moment is always filled with infinite treasures: it contains more than you are capable of receiving….The divine will is an abyss, of which the present moment is the entrance; plunge fearlessly therein and you will find it more boundless than your desire." J. P. DeCaussade, 'Abandonment to the Divine Providence' Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

5		"The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things – all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals. All things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and their own purpose." Rolling Thunder, Native American elder Spiritual Literacy, Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat)

6		"For Clement of Alexandria, moral freedom is our glory; that we are made in the image of God really means that we have what he calls 'autexousia', a term often trnslated as 'free will', but, more accurately, 'the power to constitute one's own being'." Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

7		"The Divine Will, Wisdom, the Spirit, the Word or Logos, or whatever else we like to call it, permeates the cosmos, giving it both form and life." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

8		"The soul directly reveals its royal and excellent quality in that it is governed and ruled autonomously by its own will." Gregory of Nyssa, De Hominis Opificio 4,1 Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (Elaine Pagels)

9		"God's will may not come to you in verbal or visual messages, or as anything you can articulate. It might just come as a deeply felt sense of where to go, what to do and how to act in the world from moment to moment. Clues might arrive in dreams, reveries or flashes of intuition, or in synchronistic meetings and moments, like a seemingly chance encounter with another person or a passage in a book you open in a random instance." Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

10		"Nothing but the laws of God has ever been, and nothing but His will will ever be." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

11		"It is God's will that is done, forever and ever." Guru Nanak (1469-1539), Indian disciple of Kabir, 'Hymns of Guru Nanak' The Quotable Spirit (Peter Lorie and Manuela D Mascetti, editors)

12		"In the highest form of will, the personality and even the transpersonal self are inspired by the universal will, call it God or atma, for the good of the whole." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

13		"The goal of the myth is to dispel ignorance by effecting a reconciliation of the individual consciousness with the universal will." Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

14		"Our will, the faculty of our desire and our love, is in ceaseless pursuit of goodness." My Way of Life, The Summa Simplified for Everyone (Walter Farrell and Martin J. Healy)

15		"One must be able to judge one's own actions and impulses of will with the same objective detachment as one can judge the actions and impulses of will of another." Reincarnation and Immortality (Rudolf Steiner)

16		"If we are actively helping in the progress of all, we are living in God's will, which penetrates nature, and this is felt by nature at once." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

17		"Our little wills are encompassed by a universal, divine order." The Seven Human Powers: Luminous Shadows of the Self (Shirley J. Nicholson)

18		"Holiness consists of doing the will of God with a smile." Mother Teresa of Calcutta Macmillan Dictionary of Religious Quotations (Margaret Pepper, editor)

19		"As a mother, even at the risk of her own life, protects her son, her only son, so let there be good will without measure between all beings. Let good will without measure prevail in the whole world." Metta Sutta The Perennial Philosophy (Aldous Huxley)

20		"Each time we make use of our free will by giving, we are in copartnership with the infinite Bestower. When this is accomplished with clear awareness of what we are doing, we raise the consciousness of creation." God Is A Verb, Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (Rabbi David A. Cooper)

21		"Groups are forming now in their thousands and are to be found in every land, and they will eventually blend and fuse together into one great movement of goodwill, which is spirit in actual expression." Discipleship in the New Age (Alice A. Bailey)

22		"You are enveloped in God's will as a soul is enveloped in a body, or water is enveloped by air, or the universe is enveloped by the galaxy." Miraculous Living (Rabbi Shoni Labowitz)

23		"God's will is perfection." Odes of Solomon, Ode 18, v. 10 The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden (various)

24		"Without you there would be a lack in God….for what God wills is whole, and part of Him because His Will is one." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

25		"Homer correctly stated: 'The will of Zeus is done', referring to the fate and nature of the universe by which all things are governed." Chrysippus (ca. 280-207 bce), Stoic philosopher A Treasury of Philosophy, Vol. 1 (Dagobert D. Runes, editor)