Quotes about Guidance
And yet,' she said gently, 'God hasn't come to a standstill.' Suddenly she laughed. 'I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the centre of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.' She turned her dark eyes on mine. 'How do you know? Maybe He wants to make you into something wonderful!
— Brother Andrew
That's the excitement in obedience, finding out later what God had in mind.
— Brother Andrew
I think you're like one of your own lumps of clay, Andy. God has a plan for you, and He's trying to get you into the center of it, and you keep dodging and slithering away.
— Brother Andrew
Lord, if you show me the way, I will follow You.
— Brother Andrew
That GOD always gave us light in our doubts, when we had no other design but ask to please Him.
— Brother Lawrence
Before he had experienced God's swift help in his affairs, he had attempted to plan every detail, doing the job in his own strength. Now, though, acting with childlike simplicity in God's sight, he did everything for the love of God, thanking Him for His guidance.
— Brother Lawrence
We're not called to live by human reason. All that matters is obedience to God's Word and his leading in our lives. if God says go,we'll go. If he says stay, we'll stay. When we are in his will, we are in the safest place in the world.
— Brother Yun
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
— Bruce Lee
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
— Bruce Lee
the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.
— Herman Melville
for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
— Herman Melville
rejection is usually God's protection.
— Hill Harper