Quotes About Guidance

Commit to unspoiling your child, and your child will follow.

Being an unspoiling parent is a lot of work. But it is a small price to pay for an unspoiled child.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.

Any man's life can be seen as a series of engagements with his fathers, Including the surrogates provided by life and literature.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will all say: we did it ourselves.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

leadership is not power over others. Rather, leadership is power with them.

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

It is not sufficient for fathers to send their children to church, Sunday school, Christian camp, or private Christian school. You must read the Bible to your children yourself. Obviously, our children must see some correspondence between the Bible and our lives. But even as we work out our own Christian growth, we must read God's Word to and with our children.

It is the male arm around the shoulder or pat on the back that God allows to have the quickest access to the heart of a child or employee. Men who are seeking to live out the Masculine Mandate will be nurturers.

The most striking hallmarks of so-called traditional bluegrass were fully defined during the Jimmy Martin years, long after Flatt and Scruggs had left the Blue Grass Boys. If Bill Monroe started bluegrass, Earl Scruggs certainly made it as popular as it is today. But it is crucial to recognize that Monroe was the prime creative organizer and artistic guiding force behind bluegrass.

A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch

If your child wakes during the night, restart the schedule with the minimum waiting time for that night and work up to the maximum again from there.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

When you trust in the Lord, when you are willing to let your heart and your mind be centered in His will, when you ask to be led by the Spirit to do His will, you are assured of the greatest happiness along the way and the most fulfilling attainment from this mortal experience. If you question everything you are asked to do, or dig in your heels at every unpleasant challenge, you make it harder for the Lord to bless you.

Since the Lord will not force you to learn, you must exercise your agency to authorize the Spirit to teach you.

I share a warning. Satan is extremely good at blocking spiritual communication by inducing individuals, through temptation, to violate the laws upon which spiritual communication is founded. With some, he is able to convince them that they are not able to receive such guidance from the Lord.

Write down in a secure place the important things you learn from the Spirit. You will find that as you write down precious impressions, often more will come. Also, the knowledge you gain will be available throughout your life. Always, day or night, wherever you are, whatever you are doing, seek to recognize and respond to the direction of the Spirit.

The best way to make a permanent change for good is to make Jesus Christ your model and His teachings your guide for life.

Your agency, the right to make choices, is not given so that you can get what you want. This divine gift is provided so that you will choose what your Father in Heaven wants for you. That way He can lead you to become all that He intends you to be.

Realize your full dependence upon the Lord and your need to align your life with His teachings. There is really no other way to get lasting healing and peace.