He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

“I prayed to the most merciful Lord about my heart’s great desire, and He gave me the spirit and the intelligence for the task: seafaring, astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, skill in drafting spherical maps…cosmology, history chronology and philosophy.
 
It was the Lord that put into my mind (I could feel His hand upon me) the fact that it would be possible to sail from here to the Indies.  All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me.
 
There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because he comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures, a strong and clear testimony from the 44 books of the Old Testament, from the four Gospels, and…encouraging me continually to press forward, and without ceasing for a moment they now encourage me to make haste.”

– Christopher Columbus, Libro de las Profecias