Quotes About Guidance

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Be your own guru.

Messages are everywhere if we choose to see them, prompting us & guiding us to our next steps.

go in the direction your head is pointed in.

A father is a hard thing to compass.

She saw our young minds as bright, spiky sunflowers in need of light, and arranged us as close to the TV as possible to maximize our exposure.

blur trying to shy away from the camera. I listen to her advice and on my way to and from work I concentrate on the other

Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.

This is where we leave you. The sentries at the gate will tell you what to do.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

Trust the tide, Gracie. Trust the tide.

God, had I been following the wrong set of coordinates my entire life, my eyes set on Beauty instead of True Beauty

Maybe getting around in life was nothing but map-reading. A skill that required practice. A key to unlock where you wanted to go. A legend to show where you were.

A pathfinder's job is hard enough — blazing trails where there are none, guided by nothing but hearsay and gut. While you're hacking your way through bracken, worrying about lurking beasts, all you can do is hope you had chosen the right direction.

There are times in one's life when a good book—the right book— feels like a voice speaking in the darkness, reaching out from the past; providing solace when all else seems lost.

The greatest reverence is due the young.

A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Be gentle with the young.

Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved.

I rarely ask for suggestions, because, when I do, people tend to make them.

My dad used to turn of the TV an scold me to study.

With all the decision making in my life, I often have to pause, look up and remember God is the One working behind the scenes. I say to myself, "He is able to work all things out for good. I just need to submit to Him and His ways. I can rest.

The secret to following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

submitting to authority is never for evil, but always for blessing.