Quotes About Guidance

The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

A leader is the man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do, and like it.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

When I was just a little young boy, Papa said Son, you'll never get far, I'll tell you the reason if you want to know, 'cause child of mine, there isn't really very far to go.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning His laws, so that He can do through us what He wants the most.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.

God wants to light your way.

Don't help the young too much — it will just weaken them and they'll resent it, and finally start avoiding you.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Christ says he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We want to be sure he is with us in everything we do, especially as we're trying to bring anything like Christ's healing to a relationship.

Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit.

more reason to expect an opened lock in the case of an intelligently guided try than we would if the try was unguided

1. First of all, "ask for guidance." As it turns out, this is remarkably important, and it's something most of us almost always forget to do. It seems that there is something about actually asking that jump-starts a process. And sometimes asking repeatedly is required. Even begging.

And there is that wonderful, haunting voice of the true self that calls to us, that keeps us company as we stride deeper and deeper into the world, determined to save the only soul we really can save.

3. Next (another good principle from Bede), "When you get a response, check it out." Check it out with friends, with mentors. Talk about it. This, says Bede, is a classic principle of guidance: Test the guidance. Real guidance will stand up to sustained testing. False guidance—which is usually just our own will trying to have its way—will not stand up to ongoing scrutiny.

Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975

After termination with her analyst in London, Marion would henceforth let her life be guided by an ongoing analysis of her own dream world. "Once we know what the dream world is," she writes, "to be without it is to be rudderless. The dream continually corrects our waking course." Marion, like Jung, came to believe that dreams are the path—circular and meandering as it is—to a knowledge of the exiled self.

Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic

A learned man came to me once. He said, "I know the way, -- come." And I was overjoyed at this. Together we hastened. Soon, too soon, were we Where my eyes were useless, And I knew not the ways of my feet. I clung to the hand of my friend; But at last he cried, "I am lost.

Are you following Christ's ambitions for your life or expecting Him to help you reach yours?

All that existed was precious in Crazy Horse's religion—whatever a man did or thought was good, was wakan, so long as he obeyed his own inner voice, for that too was wakan.

Indians, we don't have guardian angels—if we did, they'd have been whispering to us pretty hard when some certain ships bobbed up on the horizon—but we do have helpers. I think usually it's supposed to be an animal.