Quotes about Direction
So he has touched you, and yet there is much you do not yet understand. How are you to fathom all that is happening? What shall be the direction from inside for what you think? How you shall live? Where you will go? The answer, my new brother, is found within the sacred texts. Together we will begin to study them, you and I. You will learn to speak with God directly. And you will discover how to listen to him speak with you.
— Janette Oke
That's what we're all looking for, the place where the work leads us.
— Dustin Hoffman
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
— William Wilberforce
Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.
— Timothy Lane
Do you need encouragement, comfort, hope, direction, wisdom, courage, rebuke, warning, forgiveness, patience, teaching, correction, thanks, insight, a job description, or something else? My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.
— Timothy Lane
Wouldn't you rather be asked a question than be given an order?
— Dale Carnegie
Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.
— Dale Carnegie
It is much more important to cultivate the quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.
— Dallas Willard
Thoughts are where we make our first movements toward God and where the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.
— Dallas Willard
So God uses our self-knowledge or self-awareness, which is heightened and given a special quality by his presence and direction, to search us out and reveal to us the truth about ourselves and our world.
— Dallas Willard
Believe our only hope for leaders to increasingly work in the way of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, in the power of Jesus and under the direction of Jesus will be as they have passed through stages that help them learn the soul work of surrender, abandonment, contentment and participation. There simply are no shortcuts.
— Dallas Willard
"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
— Khalil Gibran