DP 201 [1, 3]
Those who ascribe everything to nature
also ascribe everything to human prudence.
For people who ascribe everything to nature,
at heart deny God,
and people
who ascribe everything to human prudence,
at heart deny Divine providence.
One is inseparable from the other.
What is in God called providence
is in man called prudence.
DP 202 [1, 2, 3]
The Lord's Divine providence,
owing to its presence in the least particulars,
is universal in this,
that He created the universe
in order that He might produce in it
an infinite and eternal creation from Him;
and the Lord produces this creation
by His forming out of human beings
a heaven which in His sight
is like a single person
who is the image and likeness of Him.
. . . The infinity and eternity that the Lord regards
in forming His heaven out of people
is its increase to infinity and to eternity,
and thus His constant abode
in the end in His creation.
This creating is infinite and
eternal,
which the Lord has provided
by the creation of the universe,
and He is constantly present in that creation
by His Divine providence.
. . . no one can be reformed of himself
through his own prudence,
but only by the Lord through His Divine Providence.
The Lord accomplishes this in accordance
with the laws of His Divine providence.
And it is in accordance with these laws also
that it appear to a person
that it is he who guides himself.
But the Lord foresees how he is guiding himself
and continually makes adjustments.
DP 203
. . .the human race throughout the whole world
is under the Lord's care,
that the Lord guides everyone
in the least particulars
from infancy to the end of his life,
and that the Lord foresees his place
and at the same time provides it.
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