Quotes about Guidance

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Prayer consists in the transformation of what we do in the name of Jesus to what Holy Spirit does in us as we follow Jesus.

Morris again. "This is good, helpful. Now that we are talking this way, I realize that for those twenty years that I was an engineer sitting in the pew each Sunday, I never had a patient pastor—they were all trying to get me 'with the program,' shape me up, get me, as they put it, 'involved.' I don't want to become a pastor like that. I don't think that is what pastors are for.

And my work is not to fix people. It is to lead people in the worship of God and to lead them in living a holy life.

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

Inappropriate, anxiety-driven, fear-driven work would only interfere with and distract from what God was already doing. My "work" assignment was to pay more attention to what God does than what I do, and then to find, and guide others to find, the daily, weekly, yearly rhythms that would get this awareness into our bones. Holy Saturday for a start. And then Sabbath keeping. Staying in touch with people in despair, knowing them by name, and waiting for resurrection.

I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.