Quotes About Guidance

What is it that makes it so hard sometimes to determine whither we will walk? I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do. It is by a mathematical point only that we are wise, as the sailor or the fugitive slave keeps the polestar in his eye; but that is sufficient guidance for all our life. We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round—for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost—do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.

I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.

Sigue un camino, aunque sea estrecho y torcido, en el que puedas caminar con amor y reverencia. / Este mundo no es sino un lienzo para nuestra imaginación.

What should we think of the shepherd's life if his flocks always wandered to higher pastures than his thoughts?

You will find, if you think for a moment, that the people who influence you are the people who believe in you.

You will find . . . that the people who influence you are people who believe in you.

I am, indeed, set over them for their own good only, and was created for their use, and not they for mine.

Theory is the best guide for experiment—that were it not for theory and the problems and hypotheses that come out of it, we would not know the points we wanted to verify, and hence would experiment aimlessly

We may sometimes point out a road we are unable to follow.

ignis fatuus.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.

Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they've reached the age of discretion.

The Way is not difficult; but you must avoid choosing!" Or, as another ancient one put it—"The Way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek it in difficult things.

Fiecare om are destinul s?u; singura regul? este s?-l accepte ?i s?-l urmeze oriunde l-ar duce.

Iedereen heeft een lotsbestemming; de enige verplichting is die te volgen en te accepteren, waar zij ook toe mag leiden.

Jesus was the Son of God. Yet He never took the initiative to dream a dream or launch a new ministry. He lived His life in absolute dependence upon His Father. If Jesus was that dependent on the Father, then you and I should realize how ludicrous it is for us to set out on our own without any direction or guidance from the Father.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that. God himself must reveal it.

Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.

Divine truth is not something we "discover;" it is revealed by the Holy Spirit of God. As such, no other reality in the Christian life is as important as being filled with the Spirit.

Leaders ought never to allow the least motivated members of an organization to set the pace for the others. Rather