Epictetus, Discourses 2.14.7

Does no one govern it? How can that be? A city or a household cannot endure even for a brief span of time without one to govern and take charge of it, and can this great and noble frame of things be administered in such good order by mere random chance? There is, then, One who governs it. What is His nature and how does He govern? And we, what are we, His creations, and to what work are we born?…