Quotes About Guidance

Most people have no idea how to pray for you. If you want them to pray something more than, "Be with [fill in the blank] as she works with lost people in [fill in the blank]," then you need to teach them how to pray. Teaching them how to pray effectively is your responsibility.

The very act of mentoring changes and matures the mentor as well as the mentee. This is the reason it's so important to encourage mentees to mentor others. Unless and until they mentor others, the mentoring process is of limited value.

if you give directions for a living, then it's pretty hard to follow them.

Allah told me that it was what I was supposed to do. He told me to trick the white man, that getting close to him was the only way I was going to get back to Africa. And that I had to forsake all that got into my path.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

may not be perfect as a person, but God is perfect… and if I roll with Him, He will help me become more like Him until it's my time to go.

Feeling far away from what we want tells us one of two things about our work: that we are at the beginning or that we have forgotten where we were going.

I stopped at a red light, feeling foolish as always for stopping at an intersection at an hour when the streets are deserted, just because a colored lightbulb told me to.

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Live a life of rightness. Seek to follow the blessed Lord, and pray for enlightenment for others.

It goes back to the passage from Proverbs. We don't know what to do, where to go, or how. So I thought we'd try and take this time to find out what we want, and what God wants, and pray for each other.

And for the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten.

Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow

We need more moral compasses and less Sat Navs

When you take God out of the picture you are left without a frame

True leaders do not command their followers, but they inspire them, they do not lord over them, but are examples before them, and do not lead through compulsions, but through liberty. Ask your nature.

May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face and the rains fall softly upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the hollow of his hand." Afterward

Debes prestarle atención a tu corazón, aunque no sepas adonde van a conducirte sus dictados. Hacer otra cosa sería abrirle la puerta a la tristeza.

A good teacher can change the course of a life.

The right path and easy path are usually two different things, and when it's time to choose, always choose the right path over the easy.

You control what path you take. Keep doing the right thing and handling the things within your control, and God will take care of the things that are out of your control. Everything will work out as it should.

Stay on the right path. If what you want is meant to be, then it will be.

It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.