Quotes About Guidance

sometimes there's someone else, especially when the sky goes dark: the person guiding slowly from behind. That's who I've become in my family.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be." Mario Vargas Llosa

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Will you walk the road to your destiny, or must the Gods drag you to it unwilling?

We think our parents are in charge, right? Like they know what they're doing? But the truth is, they're making it up as they go along, just like we are. Just like everyone. If we judge them by their worst mistakes, they're all, like, gargantuan failures. Maybe you should try judging your mom by her intentions, by whether she, like, loves you and is doing her best.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

what is it like to have a dad?

A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

He stared at me and the unconscious priest at my feet. "Hey," I said awkwardly, unable to imagine what he was thinking. Don't do this when you grow up , I wanted to tell him. Don't be like me .

You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.

The issue is never, "Are you qualified?" The issue is always, "Are you called?

At some point in our lives, we all need someone who believes in us more than we believe in ourselves.

God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time.

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.

fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us. Here's my advice: pray about what to pray about. God will reveal a promise, a problem, or a person. Then circle whatever God has prompted you to pray for with the same kind of consistency with which the earth circles the sun.

You don't need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.