Quotes About Guidance

In a sense, learning to follow Jesus is simply learning to pray the Lord's Prayer.

It is one thing to insist on walking south when the compass is pointing north. But to "fix" the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far, far worse. You can correct a mistake. But once you tell yourself it wasn't a mistake there's no way back.

The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living.

Rules of faith and creeds are like the guard rails on the side of the highway, which prevent you from skidding off into the path of oncoming traffic. They do not themselves tell you everything you need to know about your journey and destination, nor do they put fresh gas in your tank. Only the scriptural message about God's kingdom in Jesus Christ will do that.

Moral effort needs mental effort, and the mental effort needs to be focused on that victory and turned into prayer for the victory to be applied today and tomorrow. The sacraments will help here, but spiritual guidance and counsel will help a great deal too.

Leadership is the absence of self interest

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon." Illium laughed at Galen's instruction to "fly, little butterfly

You're my hope, Ivy, my beacon home on the darkest night.

If I could have, I would've taken you with me," Walker said. "That I couldn't do, but I could make sure you had the tools to survive." It didn't answer Aden's question, but he didn't push. Then Walker added, "You're not my son, Aden, but that's how I've always thought of you.

Te curarás, Elena. Y entonces te enseñaré cómo bailan los ángeles.

Let your bond blaze like a candle in the dark.

This was what it should be like. Family was the bedrock of life; that was what Tazia had always been taught, still what she believed. A person could weather anything so long as she had the strength of her family at her back. To be without family was to be a ghost, lost in the wilderness.

Llevaría volando a nuestro hijo a donde quiera que necesitara ir. -Galen

But God's grace is with us every step of the way. As each chapter of our lives ends, as every door closes, He is standing right there. Whether we are innocently unaware of the preciousness of a moment or if we are all too well aware that it is the last time, God is with us.

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! —Psalm 119:1

Stand at the crossroads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way lies; and walk in it. —Jeremiah 6:16

For I know the plans I have for you . . . plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. —Jeremiah 29:11

When in doubt, tell the truth. When in pain, listen to the wind.

A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.

Oh Papa. I always felt like I had a hold on things when there was Papa to turn to.

I thought I was leading them, but the truth was, I was just following them, holding up a lantern.

Never forget, either of you, that there is always something greater than yourselves at work in the world. Look for it. Seek the whole truth, rather than letting the wind blow you as it will.

It is a hard thing to let your children near danger, and yet, I remember my Papa teaching me to fire a rifle before I could even hold it with my own strength. And if he hadn't trusted me to be careful, I would have never had faith in myself to do it.

Guardian angels guide the steps of idiots.