Quotes About Guidance

Mi papá va dejando regadas sílabas por el camino de la conversación, «claro», «normal», «obvio», como migas de pan para que yo no me pierda.

Yes, a major can break a record or sell a hit, but it can never lead the way.

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

I look back over the events of my life and see the hands that carried Moses to his grave lifting me out of mine. In remembering I go back to these places where God met me and I meet him again and I lay my head on his breast, and he shows me the land beyond the Jordan and I suck into my lungs the fragrance of his breath, the power of his presence.

Sometimes we don't know where God is going to lead us; but God already knows. It's not our job to worry about that. It's just our job to follow.

You'll find your way.

Richard A. LaFleur

Caec sunt ducs caecrum. (Matthew 15.14:

You see, all of us have the potential to do great good, even those who you would least expect. Sometimes, they just need a little guidance, a little push.

The best amongst us, in like manner, I fear, are come to the same pass that they were in Melancthon's time, who complained as he writeth in this sort: "We understand whom to avoid (meaning the Papists), yet whom to follow we know not."

If you've been afraid most of your life, you may not have good examples of what "happy" is. In that case, you can build it in. That's what I do. You have to give people a really strong feeling of being relaxed, a really strong feeling of feeling good as a guide for their behavior. You do this so that, in the future when they wake up, they start asking, How much fun can I have today? How much freedom can I find? How much more can I do than I've done before?

the LORD stood beside him" (i.e., Jacob;

Always it refers to God's favor and care for those he chooses to be "with." It makes all the difference to their lives.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

What else is the law made for, but to be the rule of life, and the rule of judgment? Read Psal. i. and xv.; Matt. v. vii. and xxv.,

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

The universal church of Christ must consist of individual churches guided by their own overseers, and every Christian must be a member of one of these churches (except those who are away on business or travel or are in other similar cases of necessity). Though a minister is an officer in the universal church, yet in a special manner he is the overseer of that particular church committed to his charge.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

If they were honest, many parents would confess that their primary reasons for not allowing their child to quit something is because of financial reasons, or personal reluctance to get involved, or both.

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

We know that giving someone ideas as to what they 'should' do and how they should 'change' to be more effective, often has the opposite effect

The child who knows his parents have sturdy end stops will not have to push and test to find the limits and boundaries.

Nowhere is follow-through needed more than in your parenting.