Quotes About Guidance

One of the best ways of avoiding his torments was to be ignorant about something and let him put you straight.

When there is no light to see by, any drunk can walk in a straight line!

Their expertise would not be as outside agitators but as inside power brokers. If Alinsky had survived, he could have taken justified pride for his role in being their guiding star, their Godfather. To a considerable degree, he was the one who taught them how to steal America.

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

You'll become a beacon and the light spreads far and wide. Many see it and are attracted to it. And they will flock to you like a moth to a candle. Even though they have not been aware or interested before, now they see they want to be a part of it.

Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

As my friend and coach, Nelson Searcy, says, "Hope is not a church strategy.

Machines that give too much feedback are like backseat drivers.

Whenever you see hand-lettered signs pasted on doors, switches, or products, trying to explain how to work them, what to do and what not to do, you are also looking at poor design.

Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then, the father proceeds with his instruction.

This mess calls for leadership in the worst way.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

When we do what God wants us to do, we are blessed, we are spiritually healthy.

Nearly every human being is looking for a guide (or guides) to help them win the day.

You can call it God or a conscience… but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character. I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

You can call it God or a conscience, or you can dismiss it as that intuitive knowing we all have as human beings, as living storytellers; but there is a knowing I feel that guides me toward better stories, toward being a better character. I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

The goal for our branding should be that every potential customer knows exactly where we want to take them:

I believe there is a writer outside ourselves, plotting a better story for us, interacting with us, even, and whispering a better story into our consciousness.

People are looking for a philosophy they can embody or a series of steps they can take to solve their problems.

Everybody wants to be taken somewhere. If we don't tell people where we're taking them, they'll engage another brand.