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Quotes About Guidance

Lead me, guide me to the light of your paper. Keep me in your arc of acuity. And when the ream is spent. Write a poem on my back. I'll never wash it off.
~ C.D. Wright
There's a light that can make finding a thing look more than faintly like falling across it—you must kneel, make an offering. I threw my compass away years ago. I have passed through that light. —Carl Phillips, from "That it Might Save, or Drown Them", Wild is the West (?Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 23, 2018)
~ Carl Phillips
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps.
~ Carl Sagan
The visions we offer our children shape the future.
~ Carl Sagan
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are.
~ Carl Sagan
The visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps. Should I do something with this?
~ Carl Sagan
We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.17
~ Terence E. Fretheim
We pray to God from where we are, not from where we consider we should be. And God, who knows us where we are, can lead us to where we can be.
~ Terence E. Fretheim
it is presumptuous in me to wish to choose my path, because I cannot tell which path is best for me. I must leave it to the Lord, Who knows me, to lead me by the path which is best for me, so that in all things His will may be done.
~ Teresa of Avila
God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.
~ Terri Blackstock
Nate Beckett is a man I will point to when my daughter asks me what kind of man she should marry.
~ Terri Blackstock
I've said this before, Lord, but I'm so sorry for all the stupid choices I've made. I want to start over, with your guidance. I can't afford to make mistakes now. Will you turn up the volume on your voice, and turn mine down? Will you give me that wisdom you promised if we ask?
~ Terri Blackstock
As if you could ever protect your children from what life might bring their way. Or even from themselves and their impulses.
~ Terry Brooks
He understood that letting the magic guide him, that letting it think it was in control when actually it wasn't, allowed him to be its master.
~ Terry Brooks
Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.
~ Terry Brooks
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.
~ Terry Goodkind
Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.
~ Terry Goodkind
Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way. - Richard
~ Terry Goodkind
Leadership is a nurturing of those under your command.
~ Terry Goodkind
It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.
~ Terry Goodkind
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight
~ Terry Goodkind
Because, Richard, many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader who will cut the taller plants so the sun will reach them. They think no plant should be allowed to grow taller than the shortest, and in that way give light to all. They would rather be provided a guiding light, regardless of the fuel, than light a candle themselves.
~ Terry Goodkind
Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us. In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled." She put her heart and soul into the words. "We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.
~ Terry Goodkind
Master Rahl guide us. Master Rahl teach us. Master Rahl protect us," Kahlan murmured yet again. "In your light we thrive. In your mercy we are sheltered. In your wisdom we are humbled. We live only to serve. Our lives are yours.
~ Terry Goodkind