Quotes About Guidance

Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

Reality discipline steers a course between an authoritarian style and a permissive style, giving kids some choices but also holding them accountable.

Great leaders instill a sense of meaning and belonging in their followers by putting the personal imprint of who they are and what they stand for on their people.

Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading.

As long as I stay with my values, something valuable happens.

This was how you did it, how you raised children. You built them a house that was impervious to danger and then you gave them every single thing that they could ever want, no matter how impossible. You read to them at night. Why couldn't people figure this out?

Turn on a light if it's dark outside, pray if darkness hits you from inside

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

Of all the intimate blessings and favours He has bestowed upon you nothing can match the Qur'?n. If every hair on your body becomes a tongue praising and thanking Him, if every drop of blood in your body turns into a joyful tear, even then your praise and thanks will not match His enormous generosity that is the Qur'?n.

To read the Qur'?n is nothing less than to live the Qur'?n willingly, sincerely, devotedly, and totally. The outcome of your entire life depends on how you heed the call given by God.

The Qur'?n is Allah's greatest blessing for you.

Which earth will bear me and which sky will protect me if I say anything by my personal opinion in interpreting the Qur'?n.

There is no book like the Qur'an. It quickens hearts and transforms lives, it leads whole people from glory to glory. It is the final answer to man's eternal, existential quest. For Muslims, it is the ultimate arbiter of their destiny: be it their rise to the heights of glory and civilization or their fall into the bottomless pits of decay and ignominy, it all happens because of how they live with respect to the Qur'an.

The Prophet Muhammad has said: 'Whoever Allah wishes good for, He bestows upon him a deep understanding of the Din.' (Bukhari, Muslim.)

Tilawa or recitation is an act in which your whole person – soul, heart, mind, tongue and body – should participate. Thus, to recite the Quran, as it deserves to be recited, is not a light task; but neither is it impossible nor difficult. Otherwise, the Quran could not have been meant for everyone; nor could it be the mercy and the guidance that it surely is.

The Quran explains: Whosoever holds on to Allah, he has already been guided onto a Straight Way. [Al Imran 3: 101.] CHARACTERISTICS

once you come to the Qur'?n as the first believers did, it may reveal to you as it did to them, make partners of you as it did of them. And only then, instead of being a mere revered book, a sacred fossil, or a

Ravens and the others were able to find water deep enough to handle the longboat's twenty-inch draft. Before his departure, Ravens promised Gates and Somers and Strachey and the other survivors that if he lived and arrived safe in Virginia, he would return by the time of the next new moon, or by late September. Ravens, in turn, was told that the survivors would light a signal fire to guide him back.

we cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned.

I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

Her faith will always be there. It's there now. We've seen it. God has preserved her for some great purpose, and her faith is there to carry her through.

The Lord is constantly teaching us. I know He has me in His right pocket and I'm very safe there. I love to see Him really work in my life, and I know He'll use me in His due time.