Quotes about Guidance

We must, from the highest office in the land right down to the shoeshine boy in the airport, have a return to biblical basics.

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

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

Leadership in a team environment is all about serving, facilitating, and releasing rather than taking charge and being in control.

If I had to add anything, it would be that team leadership may be the most challenging of all leadership roles. In this arena, the team leader must lay aside his or her mantle of positional leader and take on the role of a servant leader, serving the task of the team as well as the individual members.

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

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

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

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

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

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.