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1		"Everything we see is an item of the wisdom, power, and goodness of God." Sir Thomas Browne

2		"Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbits and the tides." Charles Henry Parkhurst, 'Sermons: Pattern in Mount'

3		"Holiness is the symmetry of the soul." Philip Henry

4		"The course of nature governs all! The course of nature is the heart of God." Edward Young, 'Nighr Thoughts', Night IX, 1. 1280

5		"God hides nothing. His very work from the beginning is revelation – a casting aside of veil after veil, a showing unto men of truth after truth." George Macdonald

6		"You must recognize as brothers and sisters all who live; and free to will, free to act, free to enjoy, you shall know the worth of existence." Richard Wagner, 'The Creative Force'

7		"That which we should value in ourselves and in one another is the dignity of God's image." Anonymous

8		"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

9		"Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt for a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent providence. I feel it." Jean Jacques Rousseau

10		"I sought my soul – but my soul I could not see; I sought my God – but my God eluded me; I sought my brother – and found all three." Anonymous

11		"The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it." Edmund Burke

12		"Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everything." Ralph Waldo Emerson

13		"To Him, no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all." Alexander Pope, 'Essay on Man', Epis. 1

14		"Life is the childhood of our immortality." Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe

15		"As a countenance is made beautiful by the soul's shining through it, so the world is beautiful by the shining through it of God." Johann Georg Jacobi

16		"Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God builds up His living temple." Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 'Holiness'

17		"Never to judge rashly; never to interpret the actions of others in an ill-sense, but to compassionate their infirmities, bear their burdens, excuse their weaknesses, and make up for their defects – to hate their imperfections, but love themselves, this is the true spirit of charity." Nicolas Caussin (1582-1651)

18		"How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven." George Macdonald

19		"The universe is a thought of God." Johann C. F. vonSchiller, 'Essays: Aesthetical and Philosophical', Letter IV

20		"God is to me that creative Force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love." Henry Sloane Coffin, 'Newton: My Idea of God'

21		"Always and in everything let there be reverence." Confucius, 'The Book of Rites', I

22		"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable." Plato, 'The Republic', Bk. X

23		"Man is a soul formed by divine ideas, and bodying forth their image. His mind is the unit and measure of things visible and invisible." Amos Bronson Alcott, 'Tablets, II'

24		"Every man's life is a plan of God." Horace Bushnell

25		"Prayer is the recovery of the soul's breathing." Gerald Heard, 'The Christian Century'