Quotes About Guidance

Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.

One father is more than 100 schoolmasters.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Trying to do good to people without God's help is no easier than making the sun shine at midnight. You discover that you've got to abandon all your own preferences, your own bright ideas, and guide souls along the road our Lord has marked out for them. You mustn't coerce them into some path of your own choosing.

You do build in darkness if you have faith. When the light returns you have made of yourself a fortress which is impregnable to certain kinds of trouble; you may even find yourself needed and sought by others as a beacon in their dark.

He who has daughters is always a shepherd.

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

Hate is not a good counselor.

Thine own friend, and thy father's friend, forsake not.

If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from men who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.

It is no good hearing an inner voice or getting an inner prompting if you do not immediately act on that inner prompting.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still warm waters.

If you cry "Forward," you must make plain in what direction to go.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker, if you will.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood.

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

God will be present, whether asked or not.

I always say my God will take care of me. If it's my time I'll go, and if it's not I won't. I feel that He really has a lot of important things for me to do. And He's going to make sure that I'm here to do them.

Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do.