Quotes About Guidance

God is always in control; he is able to bring his people back to him.

When you're trying to make things happen in your own time . . . We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. Proverbs 16:9

Effective leaders are skilled at asking carefully worded questions, guiding people to greater understanding of issues and problems until appropriate solutions become obvious. By guiding people to think things through for themselves, the (Socratic) leader encourages shared pride and ownership of the solutions generated.

Worry not that your child listens to you; worry most that they watch you.

We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

The safest place for yourself and the children is in the path of duty.

I urge every parent to become a Loving Hard-Ass Parent.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.

It was a mother's prerogative, to be affectionately critical of her child.

It reminded me of what Pollux said once about owls. That when you are approached by an owl, when you don't seek it out but it flies to you or perches on your fence, say, the owl is telling you to prepare yourself. Prepare yourself for what? That sort of warning can drive you crazy. Impossible to know how to avoid something when you don't know what it is.

Our life is a journey, through winter and night, We look for our way, in a sky without light. (Song of the Swiss Guards, 1793)

Children don't know the law. Their parents slap them to teach them the law and protect them from pleasure. There's

Ce qui guide encore le mieux, c'est l'odeur de la merde.

I'm doddering around like an old bumblebee, I'm all tangled up in the air, Ah sees it, I ain't tellin' things in the right order, what about it! You'll excuse me somewhat, kidding about my memories, digressing from rhyme to reason, jabbering away about my friends instead of showing you around!...Let's go! and let's keep going!...Let me show you around nicely...straying neither right nor left!...

People—even impetuous children—don't set out to ruin their lives, but sometimes parents can see their children making enormous mistakes from a long way away, just like dark clouds bringing a storm across the sea.

You're having what Saint John of the Cross would call 'a dark night of the soul,'" Aunt Aida said. "Follow it through, darling. Try to abide with the feelings, and know that you're being shown something you've never seen before. Have faith that morning will come.

God steers, but you row.

Stevie thought about how people have to find their own ways to the light. People take as long as they take, and there wasn't any use trying to rush them.

As a librarian I learned one of life's great truths: you don't have to know all the answers, you just have to know where to find them.

We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.

Conscience is the voice of God.