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1		"Behind the dim unknown stands God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own." James Russell Lowell, 'The Present Crisis'

2		"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

3		"God is like a skillful geometrician." Sir Thomas Browne, 'Religio Medici', Pt. 1, sec. 16

4		"Every moment of this strange and lovely life from dawn to dusk, is a miracle. Somewhere, always, a rose is opening its petals to the dawn. Somewhere, always, a flower is fading in the dusk. The incense that rises with the sun, and the scents that die in the dark, are all gathered, sooner or later, into the solitary fragrance that is God. Faintly, elusively, that fragrance lingers over all of us." Beverly Nichols, 'The Fool Hath Said'

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

6		"Nature is the living, visible garment of God." Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe

7		"Everything science has taught me – and continues to teach me – strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death." Werner vonBraun

8		"Trusting in Him who can go with me and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well." Abraham Lincoln

9		"Time is the image of eternity." Diogenes Laertius, 'Plato, XLI'

10		"All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Mary Baker Eddy, 'Science and Health'

11		"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

12		"The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind." Jean Louis Agassiz, 'Agassiz at Penikese'

13		"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

14		"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

15		The One remains, the many change and pass." Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Adonais'

16		"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

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

18		"Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate….Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives." Alexis Carrel, 'Prayer'

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

20		"There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God… - Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims his glory." John Newton

21		"The law of mutual charity perfects the law of justice." Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), 'Graves de communi', January 18, 1901

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

23		"On the imagination God sometimes paints, by dream and symbol, the likeness of things to come…Each is the yearning of the soul for the great Beyond, which attests our immortality." Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

24		"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

25		"He who knows God is truly moral." Friedrich vonSchelling