Quotes About Guidance

With God's help she could forge a path where there hadn't been one before. With God's help she would make a way where there was none.

We don't change God's message. His message changes us.

Carried on the brisk winds of faith, guided by devotion, navigated by love, it arrived fresh and bright at the very feet of the Archangel Gabriel.

If God is your copilot, trade places.

Women who can't be close to their husbands have a propensity to develop a self-absorbing, spiritual intimacy with spiritual leaders—be they men or women.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.

Grownups shouldn't turn their backs on children.

I act strictly according to the way I feel, my intuition. Miss Melba Obrenski

It is a miracle, Claire. Whether it was performed by God himself or by the hands of doctors He created and guided, I won't call it anything

The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will

Don't give up on the Lord. Have faith and be open to His will, not yours. If there's something you're supposed to do or something you're supposed to know, you will. Moved

You know the drill—your child cruises over to the coffee table and throws the remote control at the dog. But before he does it, he turns his head and looks over at you with a devilish grin on his face. That's because you've already told him, ten times, this is not okay.

When you can't trust others, and you can't trust yourself, you can always trust God. He'll carry you through whatever comes your way.

When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.

Goal 7: That each child grow up free from highly damaging sin

Christian parents should each mentally lay their babies on the altar, offering them to God, and promising to do all in their power to win each child to a true following of God that is not superficial, but goes all the way down into the center of their personhood. Then each couple should follow that up with regular prayer for their kids, that they believe, what to say to them, how to influence them, and for help in not turning them off to God.

Yielding to a parent's control is the path to self-control; and self-control alone is liberty.

Raise children who are grateful in general, and grateful to be an American in particular, or grateful to be the citizen of any decent country, who don't complain much, who learn to handle losing, and who are guided by values, not feelings. In other words, teach them how to be happy adults.

The Ten Commandments are preoccupied with goodness. Each commandment is a moral tour de force. Together they present the most compelling plan ever devised for a better life and good world. Yet, they were written—and in the eyes of hundreds of millions, revealed by the Creator—three thousand years ago. The Ten Commandments are what began humanity's long, arduous journey toward moral progress.

With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.

Like Whitney Houston, we believe the children are the future. But adults are in charge of the present, and we should start acting like it.

It is easier to perform surgery than to raise happy, healthy, good children – and surgeons are given years of specialized training, while most of us have to raise human beings from babyhood to adulthood with nothing but our own parents' often very faulty model to guide us.

The Ten Commandments are there to warn all of us that, with very few exceptions, such as the immediate saving of innocent life, no cause is more important than truth-telling. The Ten Commandments are the greatest list of instructions ever devised for creating a good society. But such a society cannot be created or maintained if it is not based on truth.

Every day we need to decide what kind of legacy we want to leave. What kind of children do we want to raise? And what kind of relationship do we need to build with them?