Quotes About Guidance

Men that made a man of me. About your work in town and farm Still you'll keep my head from harm, Still you'll help me, hands that gave A grasp to friend me to the grave.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view. It destroys the purity of their world.

The function of a child is to live his/her own life, not the life that his/her anxious parents think he/she should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educators who thinks they knows best

Let parents be ever on their guard, for no one can kindle hell in his own blood, and devote his own issue to misfortune, without being himself burnt and made wretched.

We all have different paths. In the beginning, we come with our eyes closed and we follow anyone who is willing to lead us into their path and then we slowly divert into our own.

I am amazed at those disciples who declare that they require this or that master. You are perfectly well aware that I have never been taught by any man. God was my guide, though I have the greatest respect for all the masters.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

At the beginning of each new day, I ask for protection and eternal blessing And divine guidance and protection from everything that is dangerous or negative in life and blessing for everything in your life and guidance so that I can get what I want with ease And make yourself under divine providence, and you will be in complete and complete safety, for you deserve it.

O my people! Ye have indeed wronged yourselves by your worship of the calf: so turn (in repentance) to your Maker, and slay yourselves (the wrongdoers); that will be better for you in the sight of your Maker.

They said: 'Beseech on our behalf thy Lord to make plain to us what (heifer) it is!' He said: 'He says: the heifer should be neither too old nor too young, but of middling age: now do what ye are commanded!

Every atom a teacher, each Universe a seeker

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

He invited me to a world that wasn't secret, but it was well hidden. You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world." p 224

Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.

Mariamma, sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel most helpless, that is when God is pointing out a path for you.

All sons should write down every word of what their fathers have to say to them.

You needed a guide. You had to know what to look for, but also how to look. You had to exert yourself to see this world. But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold. It could be addictive.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.