Quotes About Guidance

Leaders are first to care for the sheep. They are to love the sheep. They are to serve the sheep. If change is attempted without love, you have failed already.

As leaders, we do not want to change people. We want God to change people. And that includes us leaders as well.

Go where thou wilt, seek what thou wilt, and thou shalt not find a higher way above, nor a safer way below, than the way of the holy Cross." - Thomas A Kempis (The Following of Christ)

The more humble a man is in himself, and the more obedient towards God, the wiser will he be in all things, and the more shall his soul be at peace.

Not every desire is from the Holy Spirit, even though it may seem right and good.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

Beware, therefore, lest thou strive too earnestly after some desire which thou hast conceived, without taking counsel of Me; lest haply it repent thee afterwards, and that displease thee which before pleased, and for which thou didst long as for a great good.

HE that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, 1 saith the Lord. These are the words of Christ; and they teach us how far we must imitate His life and character, if we seek true illumination, and deliverance from all blindness of heart. Let it be our most earnest study, therefore, to dwell upon the life of Jesus Christ.

The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find

Precious Lord, take my hand,Lead me on, let me stand,I am tired, I am weak, I am worn.Through the storm, through the nightLead me on to the light,Take my hand, precious Lord,Lead me home.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

I answer that, As Augustine says (De Moribus Eccl. vi), "the soul needs to follow something in order to give birth to virtue: this something is God: if we follow Him we shall live aright.

Now in matters of action the reason directs all things in view of the end:

I answer that, Each man has an angel guardian appointed to him. This rests upon the fact that the guardianship of angels belongs to the execution of Divine providence concerning men.

Shepherds of the flock should . . . seek the good of their flock, and every ruler the good of the people subject to him.

All of that happened while I was reading, just reading. I was being guided by the Spirit toward an integral sense of Scripture based on the consensus of the early Christian interpreters of sacred Scripture.

Into your hands, 0 Lord, we commit ourselves this day. Give to each one of us a watchful, a humble, and a diligent spirit that we may seek in all things to know your will, and when we know it may perform it perfectly and gladly, to the honor and glory of your Name; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Gelasian Sacramentary

We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and destroyed.

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow,Though thou be black as night,And she made all of light,Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

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.

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.