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1 "There is a Supreme God who produced in his own mind a 'paradeigma' of all things." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

2 "God is everywhere. His truth and His love pervade all things as the light and the heat of the sun pervade our atmosphere." Seeds of Contemplatiion (Thomas Merton)

3 "God is contained in the individual creature." Collected Works (Carl Jung)

4 "In the higher magical religions, the priests conceived a supreme deity, a wise controller of the world's harmony." The History of Magic and the Occult (Kurt Seligmann)

5 "Nothing exists, nor can exist, outside of God." Tomorrow's God, Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge (Neale Donald Walsch)

6 "God is love…He can be, and is to be, loved, and all without exception are his children." Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)

7 "The Divine is Love." From the Outer Court to the Inner Sanctum (Annie Besant)

8 "We believe that God is present everywhere." St. Benedict, 'The Rules of St. Benedict', Rule 19 (6th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

9 "The Upanishads relate that Brahman, being-knowledge-joy, is the Atman or soul, the innermost nature of all beings, ourselves included." Finding Deep Joy (Robert Ellwood)

10 "God is the cause of everything, He is one and wise." St. Thomas Aquinas, 'Commentary on 2nd Corinthians' (13th century) The Book of Catholic Quotations (John Chapin, Editor)

11 “I shall sing of the god who rules mysteriously over nature, the god who permeates the sky, the land, and the sea and who governs the whole immense structure with a unifying bond.” Manilius Arcana Mundi (Georg Luck)

12 "God's nature is everywhere." St. Gregory Palamas, 'Topics of Natural and Theological Science' The Philokalia, volume 4 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos and St. Makarios)

13 "The Lord lives in the heart of every being. Therefore, He has the consciousness of all living entities." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

14 "As the unitary cosmic principle, the Logos contains in Himself the multiple logoi (inner principles or inner essences, thoughts of God) in accordance with which all things come into existence at the times and places, and in the forms, appointed for them, each single thing thereby containing in itself the principle of its own development." The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

15 "The Supreme Lord is the Soul of all souls." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

16 "Every atom of every world is a centre through which He is conscious, so that not only is it true that God is omnipresent, but also that whatever is is God." The Hidden Side of Things (C. W. Leadbeater)

17 "The En-Sof, the Infinite, is everything; consequently everything is the En-Sof." The Great Secret (Maurice Maeterlinck)

18 "God is the one in whom 'we live and move and have our being' (Acts 17:28). Without God's sustaining presence, we cannot even breathe or think, let alone accomplish anything." Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

19 "Everything which exists has a spirit – the seed of Divinity within itself." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)

20 "God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop." Meister Eckhart One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from World Faiths (Matthew Fox)

21 "God is origin as Creator, intermediary state as provident ruler, and consummation as final end. For, as Scripture says, 'All things are from Him and through Him, and have Him as their goal' (Romans 11:36)." St. Maximos the Confessor, 'First Century on Theology' The Philokalia, volume 2 (various authors, compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain)

22 "The incarnational aspect of Christianity reminds us that all of life is full of God. God is in all." A Tree Full of Angels (Macrina Wiederkehr)

23 "God cares for all nations." New World Dictionary-Concordance to the New American Bible (various)

24 "God is the ground and mystery of creation who binds himself to forms yet is not held bound by them." The Unity of Reality (Michael vonBruck)

25 "The Kabbalah teaches that God is pure immanence. He is the ever-pervading energy that fills the universe. He is All, and greater than All." Kabbalah for the Modern World (Migene Gonzalez-Wippler)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite