Quotes About Guidance

This noble ensample to his sheep he yaf,That first he wroghte, and afterward he taughte.

Reule wel thyself, that other folk canst rede.And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

The ability to inspire rather than enforce loyalty is a critical quality of leadership.

God didn't give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn't lead the Israelites through the wilderness with a neon all-you-can-eat sign. And God doesn't speak to people in bathrooms, public or otherwise.

Many are the gurus who rob the disciple of his wealth, but rare is the guru who removes the afflictions of the disciple.

Education is the art of making man ethical

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

We do not believe that the heavens are sealed over our heads, but that the same Father who loved and cherished the children of Israel loves and cherishes us. We believe that we are as much in need of the assistance of our Heavenly Father in the directing of our lives as they were. We know that in the day and age in which we live the seal has been broken, and God has again spoken from the heavens.

If we will follow the advice and counsel that the Lord has given, our pathway will be one of happiness. It will be a pathway, perhaps not of ease and comfort always, but in the end it will terminate in the presence of our Heavenly Father, and glory, immortality and eternal lives will be our portion.

The Lord, in His kindness, seeing the attitude of His children, and knowing that they would need guidance, gave to us the Ten Commandments, and other commandments that have been given from time to time, to help us to find happiness. You observe people running to and fro in the world, seeking happiness but not finding it. If they would only pause long enough to accept the Lord's advice happiness would follow, but they will find it in no other way.

There is a line of demarcation well defined between the Lord's territory and the devil's territory. If you will stay on the Lord's side of the line you will be under his influence and will have no desire to do wrong; but if you cross to the devil's side of that line one inch you are in the tempter's power and if he is successful, you will not be able to think or even reason properly because you will have lost the Spirit of the Lord.

In no other nation under heaven could the Church have been organized and gone forward as we have in this nation. The founding of the United States was not an accident. The giving to us of the Constitution of the United States was not an accident. Our Heavenly Father knew what would be needed, and so he paved the way to give us the Constitution. It came under the influence of prayer, and he guided those who framed that wonderful document

God's vision for your ministry, like the one He prepares for a church, will cause you to grow by demanding that you change, sharpen your skills and participate in situations in which your only hope of success is enabling His Spirit to guide you and empower you.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The future of our children is on our knees -Precious Musanu

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

Advice is one thing that is freely given away, but watch that you only take what is worth having.

Anger makes us strong, Blind and impatient, And it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost; We feel the error long.

As Joseph Conrad said, we need to be taught when young to hope, to love, to put our trust in life.