Quotes About Guidance

Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight" (Proverbs 3:5-6).

How do you know when the obstacles in your path have been placed by God to protect you, or by Satan to hinder God's purposes in your affairs?

Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

I followed my heart without breaking any rules.

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educating them.

Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.

The Master said, Guide the people by law, aline them by punishment; they may shun crime, but they will want shame. Guide them by mind, aline them by courtesy; they will learn shame and grow good.

He that rules by mind is like the north star, steady in his seat, whilst the stars all bend to him.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Speaking (dao )" is a "guiding discourse (dao )." Said a different way, language is both performative and prescriptive; it both does something to the world and recommends how it should be.

15.30 The Master said, "Having gone astray, to fail to get right back on track is to stray indeed.

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I

She was afraid she'd have no hope at all of recognizing the drop without the wagon and boxes there. She would have to get Gawyn to show it to her

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones.

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?

Carry the fire.

For things at a common destination there is a common path. Not always easy to see. But there.

Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere. [ Interview with Oprah Winfrey , June 5, 2007]