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1		"Goodwill abides at the centre. This centre... is everywhere, and is hence, in a certain sense, to be found in all." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

2		"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)

3		"When the personality is infused by the authenticity of the soul, the will is free and acting under the direct instructions of the Holy Spirit. Then we are indeed participants in God's will." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

4		"Will-to-good has carried all creation on toward a greater glory and a steadily deepening, intelligent responsiveness." The Reappearance of the Christ (Alice A. Bailey)

5		"We are all parts of the Logos, and our wills are part of his." The Inner Life (Charles W. Leadbeater)

6		"We must regain our respect for our uniqueness of mind and power of will so that we may utilize them to aid us in examining and selecting the most sound and growth-producing alternatives among the many choices the future will offer." Personhood: The Art of Being Fully Human (Leo F. Buscaglia, Ph.D.)

7		"The Neter (Nature) is alive, it will always act in the rhythm of its nature but will adapt itself harmonically to ambient conditions." Nature Word (R. A. Schwaller deLubicz)

8		"In his will is our peace." Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet The Lion Christian Quotation Collection (Hannah Ward & Jennifer Wild, compilers)

9		"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)

10		"We will wake ourselves up inwardly through our own willed activity, and through this life redeem thinking." The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner & Contemporary Spirituality (Richard Leviton)

11		"You must know your soul to be endowed with free will, and to be God's fairest work in the image of himself, its maker." Cyril of Jerusalem, 'The Catechetical Lectures' Cyril of Jerusalem and Nemesius of Emesa (William Telfer, Editor)

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

13		"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)

14		"Truth is God's Will. Share His Will and you share what He knows. Deny His Will as yours, and you are denying His Kingdom and yours." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

15		"Every moment is the message of God's will; every external event, everything outside us, and even every involuntary thought and feeling within us is God's own touch." Dom John Chapman Behold the Spirit, A Study in the Necessity of Mystical Religion (Alan Watts)

16		"All is well, and the seed of God reigns over all, and over death itself." Last words of George Fox (1624-1690), founder of the Quakers Last Words of Saints and Sinners (Herbert Lockyer)

17		"Motivation and free will are more important than behavioral determinism in shaping the course of human life." A God Within (Rene Dubos)

18		"The expansive pressure of the divine will is the Power behind the whole process of evolution." Basic Theosophy (Geoffrey Hodson)

19		"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)

20		"The will remains free. The lawfulness of things makes the present state the product of prior acts, but within the present the will is influenced but not controlled. People remain at liberty to shape their destinies." The World's Religions (Huston Smith)

21		"All the manifold manifestations of wonderful things are going on by the simple supreme will of God, and all of them are subordinate to that supreme will." Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada)

22		"A sense of inner freedom is achieved when the personal will is aligned to the Will of the Collective Source." Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

23		"Everything that exists is the outward sign of an inward intent of God." Lamps of Western Mysticism (Arthur Edward Waite)

24		"All individual acts of the will rest upon, depend upon, the final and all-embracing desire for the good itself – which is none other than God." Introduction Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master (Robert Barron)

25		"We (may) aim at a petty end quite aside from the public good, but our act arranges itself by irresistible magnetism in a line with the poles of the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Compensation' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite