Quotes About Guidance

The Truth Is That Challenge Is the Crucible for Greatness. The study of leadership is the study of how men and women guide people through uncertainty, hardship, disruption, transformation, transition, recovery, new beginnings, and other significant challenges. It's also the study of how men and women, in times of constancy and complacency, actively seek to disturb the status quo, awaken new possibilities, and pursue opportunities.

Leading by example is more effective than leading by command.

WHO ARE YOU?" This is the first question your constituents want you to answer for them. Your leadership journey begins when you set out to find the answer and are able to express it.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

When the people of God are not told the works of God, they lose the wonder of God, and everyone does that which is right in his or her own eyes.

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

Love is what we need in friendship when we stumble, and truth is what we need when we stray.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We

Word-centered people who enter counseling will be more likely follow the guidance set out in Scripture. Because they know more of the depth of their sin, they are more willing to allow other church members to help them stay on that right path.

When I know God's place, I can know my place— then things start to fall into place.

Church has to be about helping people discover what they can't get anywhere else.

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

If God really did write a book, we ought to be reading it, studying it, memorizing it, and letting it guide our lives.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

As a father, you are patterning your discipline after your heavenly Father, whom your children need to realize you deeply respect and love.

Moral leadership emerges from, and always returns to, the fundamental wants and needs, aspirations, and values of the followers.

Expirience is the oracle of truth

When John O'Malley was a Jesuit novice, an older priest told him three things to remember when living in community: First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass.

The gatekeeper at the first door asks, "Is it true?" The second gatekeeper asks, "Is it helpful?" The third gatekeeper asks, "Is it kind?

Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you're the one in control. In reality, it's someone else.... It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it's God's work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.

the Portuguese adage holds true: God writes straight on crooked lines.

Finally, in the last step of the examen you ask for the grace of God's help during the next day, and you can close with any prayer you like. Ignatius suggests the Our Father.