Quotes About Guidance

Anchor your life with love and light.

People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light.

Hold on to the darkness... I will come looking for your light.

You're the light that shines on the dark places of my soul

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

The only adult male I had ever known was my father. All my ideas about love and responsibility came from him.

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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better word.

Nomi, he said, you just need to wake up to the fact that other people need to know where you're going. But there's nobody behind me, I told him. And he said, reassuringly, that someday there may be.

Grandma asked me if I wanted to continue our Editorial Meeting but I didn't answer. Then she asked me if I knew what bioluminescence was. I smashed breadcrumbs with my thumb and kept my piehole shut. It's one's ability to create light from within, said Grandma. Like a firefly. I think you have that, Swivchen. You have a fire inside you and your job is to not let it go out. I'm too young to have a job, I said.

When Richard Bach wrote If you love someone, set them free he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.

Many ministers are more the church's institutional managers than its theological guides; correspondingly, many read more management ("leadership") books than they do works of academic theology.

I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose.

Have you ever really had a teacher? One who saw you as a raw but precious thing, a jewel that, with wisdom, could be polished to a proud shine?

She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors with muddy shoes. She loved me through vomit and snot and bloody knees. She loved me coming and going, at my worst and at my best. She had a bottomless well of love for me.

You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically. I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives.

A teacher's shadow can hover for life.

Through it all, despite it all, Eddie privately adored his old man, because sons will adore their fathers through even the worst behavior. It is how they learn devotion. Before he can devote himself to God or a woman, a boy will devote himself to his father, even foolishly, even beyond explanation.

The hands of a clock will find their way home.

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped.Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers.

I begin to call Morrie "Coach," the way I used to address my high school track coach. Morrie likes the nickname. "Coach," he says. "All right, I'll be your coach. And you can be my player. You can play all the lovely parts of life that I'm too old for now.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."   —HENRY ADAMS

Over time, I guess all your teachers find their way into your music, right?

I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.