Quotes About Guidance

The work of man is to respond to the Covenant by obeying the commandments of the Torah, those commandments that can be obeyed here and now.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me. You learn very quickly because it costs you torment and trouble.

There are so many people who helped me during all those years in Toronto for everything. Not just about basketball, it's everything. Like life, with my family. Everything.

You come from the college, you're the man. I was second-team All-American. I got drafted by Toronto, but they just took me because I was the best man on the board. They didn't need me. I didn't get a whole lot of help or guidance. I wasn't playing. I couldn't get reps in practice. And it's big-boy basketball. Grown men.

If you have a child, you're improvising with rules all day long, and some of them are total lies.

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

Is it not evident that the Canadas, as well as the other colonies, have been left in a great measure to grope their way as they could through the darkness which surrounds them, almost totally unaided by the parent state?

Jesus is a personal symbol of the Holy Spirit. Having been totally healed by the Holy Spirit, Jesus became one with him. Every thought, action, and deed of Jesus was guided by the Holy Spirit instead of ego.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

It's I who know that well: when it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

Light, dark," Shaak Ti had said. "They are just directions. Do not be fooled that you stand on anything other than your own two feet.

My role model is my dad.

Strange, when you ask anyone's advice you see yourself what is right. Even while you are asking, you discover all at once what you hadn't been able to find out in three whole years.

If one does not know to which port is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.

Her name is Aurora, for she is my shining light in the darkness.

How many of you there still are, girls and boys of various ages, raised by naïve parents in the sixties. How many of you there are, so unhappy, not knowing how to be happy. How I long to take pity on you, how I long to help you. To touch you through the Twilight—gently, with no force at all. To give you just a little confidence in yourself, just a tiny bit of optimism, a gram of willpower, a crumb of irony. To help you, so that you could help others.

No hay sabiduría, ni inteligencia, Ni consejo, contra Jehová. El caballo se alista para el día de la batalla; Mas Jehová es el que da la victoria" (Proverbios 21:30-31 RV1960).

The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there. People will follow.

Now this process, which requires death to our "selves" and the piercing of the walls of our ego to penetrate into our heart, is not possible without the spiritual master, who already knows what it means to be fully human and who has realized this knowledge himself or herself through journeying across the mountains and valleys of microcosmic existence to reach the One.