Quotes About Guidance

in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

I could point out that we have a compass, but Anders isn't just directionally challenged—put a compass in his hand, and it starts spinning, as if his very physiology foils him.

And they certainly wouldn't take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

You suppose that you could walk around, but your feet tell you that the map leads directly through the briar wall, and you can't stray from the path that has been laid out for you. Remember what happened to the little girl, your great-grandmother, in her red woolen cape. Maps protect their travelers, but only if the travelers obey the dictates of their maps. This is what you have been told.

Hemingway had a handy dictum. You want to know if something is morally right? Listen to your stomach. If it sits like broken glass, then it's morally wrong.

It's like knowing your way through the forest. You don't keep the whole forest in your mind, but wherever you are, you know where to go next.

You didn't fail me. You fed me and took care of me ... But there was something more important than all that, he thought. What Tom had given him was nothing so commonplace as food and shelter. Tom had given him something unique, something no other man had to give, something even his own father could not have given him: something that was a passion, a skill, an art, and a way of life. You gave me a cathedral...

People know the difference between right and wrong—and if they don't, that's what priests are for.

What should we do?" "If you want to live, you should go to church, confess your sins, pray, and lead a better life.

Jesus is always with you, even down the pit." At the time he had thought she was just telling him to behave well. But she had been wiser than that. Of course Jesus was with him. Jesus was everywhere. The darkness did not matter, nor the passage of time.

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

Now, Billy, remember that Jesus is always with you, even down the pit.

I don't think it really matters whether parents are strict or lenient, as long as they're consistent. Kids can live with more or less any set of rules so long as they know what they are. It's arbitrary tyranny that gets them mixed up.

Although she was a martinet, tough on discipline, she gave her deputies room to make their own decisions. She

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

To whatever degree you listen and follow your intuition, you become a creative channel for the higher power of the universe.

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power of control.

...I deeply believe that there is a power greater than ours that's helping us in our fight.

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

God is with us, and His power is around us.

We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.