Quotes About Guidance

it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole-star, which remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to understand it.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

Every man should be khan in his own home.

Who of us would have ended up where we are if someone hadn't had the good sense to interfere with us?

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

I am not a fairy godmother or anything of that sort, but I hope to give you a happy home and a good education, and to send you out into the world true, brave, generous men, prepared to serve God truly all the days of your life." ~Aunt Persis

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

You are a sweet little thing. You are the morning sunlight in my dreary afternoon sky. It is not that you would do anything so unforgivable. It is just that there is a way of doing things that is right and a way that is wrong. You are young, and the world is old. When you are a few years older, I don't want you to have to look back on anything lacking in dignity, in which you cut a ridiculous figure.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.