Quotes About Guidance

He so directs and controls all events and all actions of His creatures that they never act outside of His sovereign will.

Why did Rehoboam make such a foolish decision? The Scripture says, "So the king did not listen to the people, for this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word the LORD had spoken" (1 Kings 12:15). Two foolish decisions were made, in two instances good advice was rejected and harmful or foolish advice was followed. Both instances are attributed to the sovereign work of God guiding the minds of the kings to accomplish His will.

we should take more seriously our responsibility to pray for the leaders of our government that they will make wise decisions.

We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.

Matthew Henry says that to walk with God is "to set God always before us, and to act as those that are always under his eye. It is to live a life of communion with God both in ordinances and providences. It is to make God's word our rule and his glory our end in all our actions."5

the beginning, directs and orchestrates millions of events and circumstances every day.

We must learn to live by His agenda if we are to trust Him.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Dreams are just to show us the way, to give us courage when the road gets hard, and to give us hope when we find the thorns on the rosebush. Dreams are neither evil nor to be rejected.

Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens , and there really wasn't anybody to ask.

Don't leave your teen with the choice between obediently toeing the line or acting like a lunatic to exert some level of control over life.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

I let the fireflies lead the way, dancing just ahead of me, sparkling as I passed and then dimming to nothing.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep — and anywhere else it is needed.

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress--to the future. We often made fun of them and played jokes on them, but in our hearts we trusted them. The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom. But the first death we saw shattered this belief.