Quotes About Guidance

As a parent, you are called to carry the loads of your children that are too heavy for them, and you even want to carry the lighter

How do I know this? Because the Lord has made it clear: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jer. 29:11 NIV).

Dad is our first definition of masculinity.

His absence leaves us desperately looking for someone else to "fill in the blank." If the church doesn't do it, the gay community will. If the church doesn't do it, the gangs and drug lords will. If the church doesn't do it, the pornographers will. Empty sons will always look for someone to fill in the blank left by the father who isn't there.

For the blind poor, Rx: bleed. For yourself; Rx: love nothing. Sow rows of onions only. Plant turnips in the dark of the moon.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.

Where roads are made I lose my way. In the wide water, in the blue sky there is no line of a track. The pathway is hidden by the birds' wings, by the star-fires, by the flowers of the wayfaring seasons. And I ask my heart if its blood carries the wisdom of the unseen way.

Nothing was really so important to my father as the achievement of selflessness. He rarely mentioned it directly, but tried to guide us to it in a roundabout way.

En verdes pastos me hará descansar; junto a tranquilas aguas me conducirá. Confortará mi alma; me guiará por sendas de justicia por amor a Su nombre.

I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.

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

Seek the still of prayer that you may know yourself and make order of what is required of you.

Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

And yet, looking back on it now, she could see that God had been working on her behalf, even though she'd been blind to it.

The only sure thing is that God has a plan for your life.

Always trust your instinct! If you just close your eyes, talk to God and listen you can always hear the truth

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

That's why we have rules to begin with, Richie: because you can't trust your mind to tell you what's right and wrong.

If you need a few tips on coping, ask me now.

If you know your job, you have a responsibility to pass the knowledge on.

But God's Holy Bible is a funny thing. For a supposedly sacred, infallible text, it reads a lot like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! … The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond. Rumi

God had shown her that He was not simply overseeing her journey, but that He WAS her journey. The realization had not taken away the pain but had brought her a tremendous amount of peace.