Quotes About Guidance

There is no need to live in darkness.

God sovereignly controls every detail of your life, which should be a great comfort to you.

You are my light when i'm in the dark

Now that I've reached the ripe old age of retirement, I feel it my duty to teach you everything I've learnt about love, so listen closely. Love is like… That's as far as I've gotten I'm afraid.

...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

Listen to your heart, it will guide you on the right path.

Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.

and the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them.

???*???"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."???*????

what good are peasants without a leader?

the devil may work against us for all he is worth, but God sends us men when we want them

There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

En la vida hay tinieblas, mi niña, pero también hay luces. Y tu eres la luz de toda luz.

there were two kinds of men: strong men, who remained true to their internal compasses regardless of all else; and weak men who were easily misled and wound up cheating themselves of all they could be. He'd told Gabe he only wanted strong men

Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.

Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take.

A child should never even think about being a good son. A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

She immediately moves into me and says she is sorry and then she's guiding me toward the bedroom and this is the way I always wanted the scene to play out and then it does and it has to because it doesnt really work for me unless it happens like this.

Cause-effect looks back and asks, "What caused this?" Purpose looks up or ahead, and asks, "And why was it caused? For what purpose? For what end?" Cause-effect looks for a force pushing events from behind. Purpose looks for a pattern or design or intention or meaning pulling events from ahead, guiding them from above, enriching them from within.

Some people--and I pray I will be one of them--never forget what it was like, which enables them to mentor people of any age.

Christianity promised that it had some special divine guidance and protection that would lift it above these human problems to some degree at least, but it's becoming apparent that this promise was on par with those made by Christian leaders claiming to "pray away the gay" or pray in the fast cash.

We are guided by laws that operate without concern for destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem not to require an underlying rationale, and yet we persistently seek meaning and purpose.

Starbucks. The calm and connection marked a shift from grasping for a receding future to the feeling of inhabiting a breathtaking if transient present. It was a shift, for me, compelled by a cosmological counterpart to the guidance offered through the ages by poets and philosophers, writers and artists, spiritual sages and mindfulness teachers, among countless others who tell us the simple but surprisingly subtle truth that life is in the here and now. It's

Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. —XAVIER HARKONNEN, comment to his men