Quotes About Guidance

Grace is the breath of God—an invisible essence beyond intellect that moves swiftly amongst us. It is not only possible to become a living conduit of this powerful force, grace is immediately accessible to us along with the courage to follow divine guidance.

Las siete moradas es muchas cosas: una guía acerca de la vida y la época de santa Teresa de Ávila, esa extraordinaria santa y maestra contemplativa del siglo XVI; una guía para gozar de su maravilloso texto de meditación, El castillo interior; y, por último pero no menos importante, una guía para el alma: una guía hermosa, tierna, radiante, cariñosa, amorosa y auténtica, que nos conduce por el territorio de nuestro espíritu.

revealing. It is unnatural to our Divine design to let our thoughts live for too long in the past; such an imbalance creates time warps that interfere with our ability to live in the present and receive spiritual guidance each day. That

John O'Donohue talks about the Buddhist tradition of the kalyana-mitra, or "noble friend." Your noble friend, he says, "will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. No one can see life totally. As there is a blind spot in the retina of the human eye, there is also in the soul a blind side where you are not able to see. Therefore you must depend on the one you love to see for you what you cannot see yourself.

in our choices directing our future." Amanda

You've got to do what your heart tells you.

All dreams can be a source of light...but some are especially radiant. They linger and continue to shine with all they have to reveal.

God has a purpose for our feelings -- the good and the bad.

She was an arrow in need of a bow, to send her off in one direction or another.

A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.

do not be misled by expert bravado or by an expert's own sense of how he or she is doing. Evidence is a much better guide than an impressive self-presentation.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

Only because books are better than people, Father. ... Because they are masters who instruct without a rod. If you approach them, they are never asleep; if you are ignorant, they never laugh; if you make mistakes, they never chide. They give to all who ask of them, and never demand payment. ... All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, if God hadn't provided us with the remedy of books.

Dear God,' I said inside myself, 'when I came here, maybe I was partly running off from home for fun and freedom and adventure. But I have a notion that You had something else in mind in letting me come. Anyway if You can use me here in this Cove, well, here I am.

Stories provide a map that can help navigate the bumps in the road. (p.32)

Our lives change at His bidding.

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

Close your eyes and stare into the dark. My father's advice when I couldn't sleep as a little girl.

I think that most people go to bookshops and have no idea what they want to buy. Somehow the books sit there, almost magically willing people to pick them up. The right person for the right book. Its as though they know whose life they need to be a part of, how they can make a difference, how they can teach a lesson, put a smile on a face at just the right time.

Without a role model, there's no incentive to get better.

If my role in a relationship is to help someone, I become invested in that person's success. I'm nudging someone along their career on a path that I believe is the right one. So, if that path leads to success, it's my success as well.

Take care of your father, he said. There aren't many people like him around anymore.

I wish that your journey will be to a light not only for yourself but for all of us. I wish that it will be a journey for the sake of heaven. I give you my blessing, Asher Lev.

Jesus Christ, shepherd of Judea.