Quotes About Guidance

They live in your mind, the way they always lived inside you. You keep their light alive. If you remember them well enough, they can still guide you, like the shine of long-extinguished stars could guide ships in unfamiliar waters. If you stop mourning them, and start listening to them, they still have the power to change your life. They can, in short, be salvation.

your boss at work, or your spouse, or a group of college students via YouTube?

The point of an exemplar is not that he or she is to be emulated, but that this person, in virtue of being farther along a path you aspire to go down, somehow understands you better than you understand yourself—at least at the beginning.

Montrose could have simply forbidden him to read such things. Atticus knew other sons whose fathers had done that, who'd thrown their comic books and Amazing Stories collections into the trash. But Montrose, with limited exceptions, didn't believe in book-banning. He always insisted he just wanted Atticus to think about what he read, rather than imbibing it mindlessly, and Atticus, if he were being honest, had to admit that was a reasonable goal.

For rigorous teachers seized my youth, And purged its faith, and trimm'd its fire, Show'd me the high white star of Truth, There bade me gaze, and there aspire.

Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.

Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:??'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness.

Even in a revolutionary movement, most people are like sheep. They are naturally afraid, and like sheep, they have to be led.

Let's face it: the vast majority of the American people are just not intelligent enough to function independently in a modern technological society. They have to be led, for their own good. The problem is, most of them are too ignorant to know what's best for them.

Pope Benedict XVI on Pope St Paul VI: Let us pay homage to the spirit of evangelical wisdom with which my beloved predecessor was able to guide the Church during and after the Second Vatican Council. With prophetic intuition he perceived the hopes and anxieties or the people at that time; he strove to make the most of the positive experiences, seeking to illuminate them with the light of truth and the love of Christ.

The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

it is a great mercy to be reclaimed and called home when we go astray, though it be by a tempest.

When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.

Christianity is the salt of the earth.

All that minister about holy things must have an eye to God's command as their rule and warrant;

We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.

Good instructions from parents and ministers will but aggravate our condemnation if we do not live up to them.

We must retain the remembrance of God's works, that we may remain under the influence of God's law.

In all our ways that prove pleasant, in which we gain our point, we must acknowledge God with thankfulness. In all our ways that prove uncomfortable, and that are hedged up with thorns, we must acknowledge him with submission. It is promised, He shall direct thy paths; so that thy way shall be safe and good, and happy at last.

God can bring his people through the greatest difficulties, and force a way where he does not find it.

The restraints and warnings of the divine law are all intended for our good, and to keep us out of that danger into which we should otherwise, by our own folly, run ourselves.

Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it.

Man is not his own maker, therefore he must not be his own master; but the Author of his being must be the director of his motions and the centre of them.