Quotes About Guidance

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

It is extremely important for you to believe in yourselves not only for what you are now but for what you have the power to become. Trust in the Lord as He leads you along. He has things for you to do that you won't know about now but that will unfold later. If you stay close to Him, You will have some great adventures. You will live in a time where instead of sometimes being fulfilled, many of them will actually be fulfilled. The Lord will unfold your future bit by bit.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His

As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.

Be careful, fathers, when you inordinately desire things to be better for your children than they were for you. Do not, however unintentionally, make things worse by removing the requirement for reasonable work as part of their experience, thereby insulating your children from the very things that helped make you what you are.

Speaking on not always understanding the counsel of God's prophets, nor finding it easy to take] ... even though it is true that there must be an "opposition in all things," none of us has the personal obligation to provide that opposition.

God uses every moment that we spend waiting upon Him—not a silent moment spent listening for Him is wasted.

Es posible que no te sientas cómodo lidiando con los problemas de la persona o con la forma en que se relaciona contigo. Puede ser demasiado controladora o manipuladora para ti. Asegúrate de que el Señor haya enviado a esa persona y de que no estés asumiendo más de aquello para lo que estás preparado.

God never downloads the whole plan at once; you have to discover it along the way. This is because the greater goal is not that we accomplish something but that we grow more intimate with our Lord. Those who listen well to God will find that God listens well to them, and they will accomplish a lot more. In

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Successful people tended to seek a sponsor—an individual within the account who helped them, advised them, and, if necessary, represented them in places where they couldn't gain access.

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Being filled and led by the Spirit may take you places you never planned; but the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you.

the will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. I

There are many ways to go wrong, but only one path leads back to God. There

if you want God's blessing, He must be the architect of the vision.

Ella guided me: sometimes directly, sometimes with story and metaphor, but mostly how she lived.

The kids I've seen make it have followed various trajectories, but they all have a consistent relationship with at least one trusted adult.

We, the rescued,Beg you:Show us your sun, but gradually.Lead us from star to star, step by step.Be gentle when you teach us to live again.

A leader is like a shepherd...staying behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.