The sweetest feeling you can have in this world is to feel the hand of the Lord upon your shoulder. In my patriarchal blessing as a boy, I was promised that I would have the gift of discernment. I have to acknowledge that such a declaration has been abundantly fulfilled in my life.

Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

The good news is that there is a guide, a kind of medical advocate, an inner compass—and it resides within each of us.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.

Go where your best prayers take you.

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?

Forgive me for not being willing to hear your call until now, dear Lord. But I am here and I am ready. Direct me to where I should next go. Reveal to me how I should next serve you. Grant me the wisdom and the strength to trust you in all things. Wherever you lead. Whatever task you set. Help me, Lord.

It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.