Quotes About Guidance

The most we can do is hold out our hands and help each other across the unknown. For in our held hands we find pathways through the dark, across jungles and cities, bridges suspended over the deepest caverns of this world. Your friends will walk with you, holding on with all their might, even when they're no longer there.

Night brings good counsel, my grandmother always told me.

Celestial light, you are my choice, my last and my best choice.

Every day I need to hear that voice behind me saying: 'This is the way; walk in it' (Isa. 30:21)

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand. He that gives good advice and sets a good example, builds with both hands. But he that gives good advice and sets a bad example, builds with one hand and tears down with the other.

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.

The main point of a prayer meeting is not to move God but to allow God to move us. The Bible says we Christians grieve, quench, and resist the Holy Spirit.[97] So, we pray to repent of our sin against him and align our will with his. The Spirit is always available to us, and in prayer we make ourselves available to him.

the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.

by making good decisions, we can bring ourselves closer to God. And moving closer to God means moving closer to a life of peace-and joy.

It's one of my theories that when people give you advice, they're really just talking to themselves in the past.

This is the thought that should be uppermost on your mind in all you do for your children. In every step you take about them, in every plan, and scheme, and arrangement that concerns them, do not leave out that mighty question, How will this affect their souls?

Then the bow orchestra began to play an apocalyptically beautiful canon, one of those pieces in which, surely, the composer simply transcribed what was given, and trembled in awe of the hand that was guiding him.

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong.

When your brand is integrated into everything you do, it acts like a guardrail helping your team stay on target.

And kindness is enlivened and released through the risk of immediate care. It is the practice of allowing compassion to guide us, the practice of uncovering our intimacy with all things. Together, meaning, truth, and kindness connect everything, forming a lifeline we can hold on to, no matter the storm.

No matter how dark, the hand always knows the way to the mouth.

Truly, the most we can ask of others is for their guidance and comfort on the way—without imposition, design, or thought of reward. This is the hospitality of relationship: for family to help us manifest who we are in the world, for friends to bring us to thresholds of realness, for loved ones to encourage us to cross barriers of our own making into moments of full aliveness.

I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn't, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she became too conscious of the steps she was taking, did she fall.

The church is meant to lead the world in hearing God's voice and shaping culture.

In your position as leader, your actions are amplified; it's as if you are talking through a bullhorn every time you communicate with your employees. They hear your criticism more loudly than you mean it, and they hear your praise and thanks more loudly than it sounds to you. Use your bullhorn wisely.

The leader steps into an organization in its darkest hour and says, "Friends, you only thought this was your darkest hour. In fact, this is your greatest opportunity. Let me show you why that's true." Note

The great leaders learn to rely on God to sustain them when nothing of this world can. And this, too, is the price—and the privilege—of leadership. Oh