Quotes About Guidance

Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

What I really have a sense of dismay about is that there is a center of anything. I think maybe Cleveland can use one. Also possibly Los Angeles needs informed cultural guidance and a place to go get it. But not New York. New York is a center, a world's fair, and a den of thieves, and a house of miracles.

And she often reminded me that those four kids of mine were my church. With that in mind, I had to refocus on my ministry...I had been given four very special projects that would have to be seen through to completion. Someone had to instill godly principals in my children's lives, and God let me know that I was the woman for the job.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Mentoring at its very core is a learning relationship, and the phases I discuss and explore in this book are structures and processes that contribute to learning.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited.

As your aunts would say, 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding,'" Mac recited. "'In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths,

The strength of the group is in the will of the leader, and the will is character in action.

They call it coaching, but it is teaching. You do not just tell them ... you show them the reasons.

Leadership is based on a spiritual quality -- the power to inspire.

For there are roads and roads, and of truth there are orders and orders.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

You are a light that will always guide me, a whisper I'll always strain to hear.

The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.

Her guardian angel had given up his garrison

Advice is seldom welcome and those who need it the most like it the least.

Hearing God is not all that difficult. If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice - after all it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening. After the what of guidance comes the when and how." (11)

The Lord will lead us into victory, but success itself is the most dangerous obstacle to properly hearing the voice of God.

Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide.

From the very first country I visited, I knew I was not on this trip just for sightseeing. I did enjoy all the new experiences, but I had a strange certainty that I was being guided toward something I could not yet see.