"We defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all."

"There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."

"He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age!"

"Dieu modère tout à son plaisir."

"Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees."

"Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies."

"Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust."

"Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world."

"But my host speaks of the "old fashioned unenlightened times," like a philosopher in the best light of civilization. "I believe in Providence," said he. "Our fathers came into these valleys, got the richest of them, and skimmed off the cream of the soil. The worn-out ground won’t yield no roastin’ ears now. But the Lord foresaw this state of affairs, and prepared something else for us. And what is it? Why, He meant us to bust open these copper mines and gold mines, so that we may have money to buy the corn that we cannot raise." A most profound observation."

"Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength."

"God sends cold according to clothes."

"To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure."

"We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours."

""Let us hope", I prayed, "that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring"."

"But they that are above Have ends in everything."

"And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm."

"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?"

"Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

"Is Saul also among the prophets?"

"Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain."

"No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell."

"It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours."

"My gran'ther's rule was safer 'n 't is to crow: Don't never prophesy—onless ye know."

"This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world … this great hour which rings in a new era … and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future."

"A tunnel underneath the sea from Calais straight to Dover, Sir, The squeamish folks may cross by land from shore to shore, With sluices made to drown the French, if e'er they would come over, Sir, Has long been talk'd of, till at length 'tis thought a monstrous bore."

"Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mischief is thy great delight, Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass."

"Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word; And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be."

"From hence, no question, has sprung an observation … confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits."

"We know in part, and we prophesy in part."

"Ancestral voices prophesying war."

"Bene qui conjiciet, vatem hunc perhibebo optimum."

"The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world—a sacred gift to man."

"Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!"

"And thus He will bring back His world to its former aspect, so that the Cosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and restorer of the mighty fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with unceasing hymns of praise and blessing."

"He will call back to the right path those who have gone astray; He will cleanse the world from evil, now washing it away with water-floods, now burning it out with fiercest fire, or again expelling it by war and pestilence."

"But when all this has befallen, Asclepius, then the Master and Father, God, the first before all, the maker of that God who first came into being, will look on that which has come to pass, and will stay the disorder by the counterworking of His will, which is the good."

"No word of reverence or piety, no utterance worthy of heaven and of the Gods of heaven, will be heard or believed."

"The pious will be deemed insane, and the impious wise; the madman will be thought a brave man, and the wicked will be esteemed as good."

"Darkness will be preferred to light, and death will be thought more profitable than life; no one will raise his eyes to heaven."

"They will no longer love this world around us, this incomparable work of God, this glorious structure which He has built..."

"And in that day men will be weary of life, and they will cease to think the universe worthy of reverent wonder and of worship. And so religion, the greatest of all blessings, for there is nothing, nor has been, nor ever shall be, that can be deemed a greater boon, will be threatened with destruction; men will think it a burden, and will come to scorn it."

"“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth,”(1) writes the biblical prophet. The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven – the awakened consciousness. The earth – external reality – is only its outer reflection. The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening. Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. So the new heaven , the awakened consciousness, is not a future state to be achieved. A new heaven and a new earth are arising within you at this moment, and if they are not arising at this moment, they are no more than a thought in your head and therefore not arising at all. What did Jesus tell his disciples? “Heaven is right here in the midst of you.” (2) (1.) Revelation 21:1 (New Revised Standard Version). (2.) Luke 17:21 (New Revised Standard Version)."

"The New Earth Is No Utopia... All utopian visions have this in common: the mental projection of a future time when all will be well, we will be saved, there will be peace and harmony and the end of our problems. There have been many such utopian visions. Some ended in disappointment, others in disaster. At the core of all utopian visions lies one of the main structural dysfunctions of the old consciousness: looking to the future for salvation. The only existence the future actually has is as a thought form in your mind, so when you look to the future for salvation, you are unconsciously looking to your own mind for salvation. You are trapped in form, and that is ego."

"Right now we are being given the experience we need to raise our consciousness."

"When you accept everything for what it is without labels you are outside of your ego."

"We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease....."

"What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself."

"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."