Quotes About Guidance

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

O thou, by whom we come to God, The Life, the Truth, the Way, The path of prayer Thyself hast trod- Lord teach us how to pray.

In the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee.

If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.

I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.

Do as we say, and not as we do.

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die.

To lead an untrained people to war is to throw them away.

Important principles may and must be flexible.

Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Chance works for us when we are good captains.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing 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.

Only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

My heart is happy, my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

The most important single influence in the life of a person is another person ... who is worthy of emulation.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Tis no shame to follow the better precedent.