Quotes About Guidance

As a parent you try to maintain a certain amount of control and so you have this tug-of-war ... You have to learn when to let go. And that's not easy.

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

Thus the skilful general conducts his army just as though he were leading a single man, willy-nilly, by the hand.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

There is a God after all. And She watches out for Her own." Dan

Ahead of them, on top of a bluff, the thin beam from a lighthouse pointed a sweeping finger into the harbor.

Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate. Over-controlled by anxious, fearful parents, these children often become anxious and fearful themselves. This makes it difficult for them to mature. Many never outgrow the need for ongoing parental guidance and control. As a result, their parents continue to invade, manipulate, and frequently dominate their lives.

Then suddenly he reached out and took her hand. "Why did you do that?" she asked softly. He looked up at the snowflakes, let them fall, melt on his face, turning it shiny. "Because when it's slippery out, sometimes we just need someone to hang on to until we find our footing.

God hasn't forgotten you. There's a plan. you just don't know it yet. But when you're ready to get back into the game, He'll tell you.

God is still in control. He didn't take His eyes off you that day and say "Ooh whoops. Now Wyatt is off the rails. He's been with you- and Coco- every step of the way

If I believe that God has a plan for my life, then there are no mistakes, no regrets, just moments that God carries me. Moments when I'm forced to trust him.

Mona, God isn't the great saboteur of dreams. He doesn't give us a dream just to make it fail. He puts that dream inside us for a reason, and He wants to help make it happen.

The Lord has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination. Your job, as a warrior of the Lord, is to listen. To walk in faith.

the thing about light is that it doesn't come from us. It's God in us that provides the light to the world. So if you want to be light to her, you'd better make sure that light is shining in you first.

You don't realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon.

I want to be walking down this street with Mama, headed where we're headed. But her hand in mine makes me feel like I'm not alone in this world where you can't always see what's in front of you.

Tip for a parent trying to be the north star to a child desperate for sun: Sometimes it's enough just to shine.

Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.

People wanted so much from the library. They wanted it to solve things for them. They wanted the library to fix them and teach them how to fix their lives.

Don't let an outside influence, especially one as powerful as the media, direct your energies to the wrong place.

That is really the direction in spiritual direction, as I understand it. As gently as possible, I try to say, It seems as though the light is coming from over there," and I point to it, hoping that I don't point in such a way that I block the person's view.