Quotes About Guidance

Doing what is right isn't the problem; it's knowing what is right.

God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude.

My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.

Adversity comes with instruction in its hand.

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct.

Good counsel has no price.

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid.

An institution is the lengthening shadow of one man.

Men, like snails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

He only may chastise who loves.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

A power greater than any human being helped make this decision.

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.

Of all paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Yes, I have doubted. I have wandered off the path, but I always return. It is intuitive, an intrinsic, built-in sense of direction. I seem always to find my way home.