Quotes About Guidance

An artist does things naturally, without effort. Some power guides his hand. A forger struggles, and if he succeeds, it is a genuine achievement.

Instead of teaching the kids to be weapons, we should be teaching them how to help people with their gifts. Or just how to survive without looking like freaks. But we have no instruction books.

Professors are very great men. They shape the minds of our future.

who have the most influence over others and get them to model the behavior you want to promote.

As a leader, you will gain a more complete picture of their work and become a better coach and mentor for it.

Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

A real leader will always follow . . .

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

five words from a church hymn: One step enough for me. Lead, kindly Light … Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough

Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.

I had to help them solve their problems. I had to make each session so inspiring that they wanted to continue coming.

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children.

Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the life of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives

Why is it," comedian Lily Tomlin asks, "that when we speak to God we are said to be praying but when God speaks to us we are said to be schizophrenic?" Such a response from ourselves or others to someone's claim to have heard from God is especially likely today because of the lack of specific teaching and pastoral guidance on such matters.

It is much more important to cultivate the    quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.

Generally speaking we are in God's will whenever we are leading the kind of life he wants for us. And that leaves a lot of room for initiative on our part, which is essential: our individual initiatives are central to his will for us.

Specifically, in our attempts to understand how God speaks to us and guides us we must, above all, hold on to the fact that learning how to hear God is to be sought only as a part of a certain kind of life, a life of loving fellowship with the King and his other subjects within the kingdom of the heavens.

Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the lifwe of Jesus. And I believe that is due to this very real loss of biblical realism for our lives.

The best physical, chemical, and other scientific knowledge will not tell us what to do and who to be.

If you believe God has told you to do something, ask him to confirm it to you three times: through his word, through circumstances, and through other people who may know nothing of the situation."[20] This precept of three witnesses is not a law, but it is a good rule of thumb in an area where rules of thumb are badly needed.

voice. It cannot be stressed too much that the permanent address at which the word of God may be found is the Bible.     More

A day shared with Jesus is a day of continuous conversation. We will learn to hear his voice.