Quotes About Guidance

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

With a smile we should instruct our youth.

A teacher should be sparing of his smile.

Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society.

In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn. I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now. Luke & Jaina

The Torah is primarily divine ways rather than divine laws.

In moments of great crisis they all fail—priests, philosophers, scientists—the prophets alone prevail.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

September] 27th [1862] I happened to be placed, being a humble instrument in the hands of our Heavenly Father, as I am, and as we all are, to work out His great purposes, I have desired that all my works and acts may be according to His will, and that it might be so, I have sought His aid; but if, after endeavoring to do my best in the light which He affords me, I find my efforts fail, I must believe that for some purpose unknown to me, He wills it otherwise.

All that I am or Hope to be I owe to My Mother

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

It's important to make a distinction between allowing feelings and allowing actions," I replied. "We permit children to express all their feelings. We don't permit them to hurt each other. Our job is to show them how to express their anger without doing damage.

It's a bittersweet road we parents travel. We start with total commitment to a small, helpless human being. Over the years we worry, plan, comfort, and try to understand. We give our love, our labor, our knowledge, and our experience—so that one day he or she will have the inner strength and confidence to leave us.

at the outset it needs to be stressed that discipline means education. Discipline is essentially programmed guidance that helps people to develop internal self-control, self-direction, and efficiency. If it is to work, discipline requires mutual respect and trust. On the other hand, punishment requires external control over a person by force and coercion. Punishing agents seldom respect or trust the one punished.