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Quotes About Guidance

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.
~ Margaret Mary Alacoque
Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.
~ Mary C. Neal
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
~ J. C. Macaulay
Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.
~ Toby Keith
The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.
~ Wesley L Duewel
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.
~ Charles Brent
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
~ Barbara Johnson
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
~ Mark Batterson
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.
~ Oswald Chambers
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
~ J. I. Packer
Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.
~ Sonia Choquette
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
~ Charles Spurgeon
O Jesus, my Divine Saviour, I offer You my mind and heart. Direct their movements while I pray, so that I may offer my prayer in union with Your Immaculate Mother.
~ Rose Philippine Duchesne
The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.
~ Terry Taylor
My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.
~ Preston Manning
We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.
~ William Shakespeare
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
~ Andy Murray
Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.
~ Billy Graham
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.
~ Elizabeth George
The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep
~ Ernest Hemingway, 88 Poems