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1		"The rulers thought they did all they did by their own power and will, but the Holy Spirit was secretly accomplishing all through them by the Spirit's will." The Gospel of Philip The Gnostic Gospels of Jesus (Marvin Meyer)

2		"God's Will is the Will of the Good." The Kingdom of the Shining Ones (Flower A. Newhouse)

3		"The source of it all is the Divine Will." Laurentius Ventura Alchemy, The Art of Transformation (Jay Ramsay)

4		"Innate in all evolving life, is the eternal attraction toward attainment of archetypal perfection. This will-to-perfection is imperative in evolution, having been ceaselessly active throughout the universe from the beginning. It provides the orientation that guides Nature in the slow evolution of all forms and species toward their fulfillment." James S. Perkins, 'The Rhythmic Return to Equilibrium' Karma, The Universal Law of Harmony (Virginia Hanson and Rosemarie Stewart, editors)

5		"All Nature is one. The expression of the one Divine Will is Nature." The Spiritual Life (Annie Besant)

6		"Why should I not tirelessly concentrate on searching into the mystery of His glorious will, which I know I must obey in all thinsg?....We are transformed when we are conformed." Bernard of Clairvaux, 'Sermon on the Song of Songs', 62.5 Bernard of Clairvaux, Essential Writings (Dennis E. Tamburello, O.F.M.)

7		"When the will of man is aligned with the will of God, the light of God does not fail to precipitate that will in the fullness of time, space, and opportunity." The Sacred Art of Listening (Kay Lindahl)

8		"It is His Will that you share His Love for you, and look upon yourself as lovingly as He conceived of you before the world began, and as He knows you still." A Course in Miracles (Helen Schucman and William Thetford)

9		"The divine will is not a restriction imposed on us, a destiny from which we cannot escape: it is a loving reality far more benevolent, and far more effective on our behalf, than our own will could ever effect." The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

10		"Synthesis is an attribute of the divine will and the outstanding quality of Deity." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

11		"Nothing whatsoever can happen without Divine Providence having foreseen it and having made it fit into His plans beforehand. No obstruction in the whole world can possibly prevent the will of God from being carried out." The Secret of the Rosary (St. Louis DeMontfort)

12		"At the heart of all reality is the Infinite and Eternal Being…the infinite Mind and sovereign Will working creatively in all things and through all things with a purpose which it is man's highest interest to know and with which it is man's chief duty to relate himself." The Nature and Truth of the Great Religions (August Karl Reischauer)

13		"Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being." The Rays and The Initiations (Alice A. Bailey)

14		"The Will of God seeks to accomplish itself through our human will as the self-expression of our essence." The Alternative Gospel (John Baldock)

15		"The will of the Creator, through which all things were made and received their first impulse, is the property of every living being." Isis Unveiled (Helena P. Blavatsky)

16		"Magnified and sanctified be His great name in the world which he has created according to His will." Aramaic prayer The Hidden Jesus: A New Life (Donald Spoto, Ph. D.)

17		"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)

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

19		"Tao acts without assertion, yet all things proceed in conformity with it." Laotzu, 6th century bce Chinese philosopher, 'Laotzu's Tao and Wu-Wei' The Choice Is Always Ours (Dorothy B. Phillips, Chief Editor)

20		"Our will life is based upon the fact that human nature is embedded in the cosmic whole so that what happens in us through our will is also simultaneously a part of the whole cosmic process." How To Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Rudolf Steiner)

21		"The tools of illumination are the will to know, the will to love and the will to serve." Wu Li Making Peace With God, A Practical Guide (Harold Bloomfield, M.D. & Philip Goldberg, Ph.D.)

22		"The free will does not go into a state of restful oblivion and wait for God to do everything….The free will brings the personality under the direction of the receptive soul, so that the inner voice can make its wordless message felt." Summons to Life, Contemporary Christian Insights (Martin Israel)

23		"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)

24		"I recognize and affirm that I am a center of pure self-consciousness. I am a center of will, capable of observing, directing, and using all my psychological processes." Roberto Assagioli, 'The Act of Will' Soul Centered Astrology, A Key to Your Expanding Self (Alan Oken)

25		"God writes His will upon the face of celestial and terrestrial Nature. With this language we read God's will for all His creatures." The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Manly P. Hall)