Quotes About Guidance

Obedience leads to a powerful, confident life. When you are obedient, and when you allow yourself to be led by God through the unexpected, then you have a confidence based on the fact that you know exactly where God wants you to be.

We are to take the baton of God's truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

If you need a handbook for praise and worship, read Psalms.

Doubt treats God's Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

God clearly communicates His will for us through His Word.

Toward a Life of Prayer

The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.

It is safer to be part of a twelve-step group than a church.

The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.

We can also learn to develop a new capacity for seeing the nervous water of an emotional process (a coach or a guide like Kenny is helpful). It requires some new categories for thinking; it means practicing some new disciplines and skills. It entails change in how we relate to others, and it demands time and patience. But leadership in the kingdom of God is worth the effort.

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

Parents need to be on the same page spiritually in order to pass on those values to their children.

There is a godly way to date, and that is what you want your relationship to look like if you are seeking God's guidance and direction. God speaks when we are obedient. That's

Did mothers always try to press unto their daughters the itineraries of which they themselves had dreamed. Did I?

Hannah had been encouraging Grace to

when it's your own child, you are not a babysitter. It's called parenting.

Not having God with you is like trying to walk normally on one leg; it twists you, it must.

Lecture your children every day. You may not know what they did wrong, but they do!

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

A yielding shepherd could end up with a disobedient, rebellious herd.

If you were drifting with a thousand other people, could you really still say you were lost?

Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.