Quotes about Guidance
It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.
— Eugene Peterson
From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely.
— Eusebius of Caesarea
Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.
— Marianne Williamson
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I try to remind myself not to go anywhere or do anything without asking for spiritual direction through prayer and meditation.
— Marianne Williamson
When the words of prophets seem repetitive, that should rivet our attention.
— Henry B. Eyring
In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow.
— Henry Cloud
Indeed, the world is a better place because there was such a leader as President Gordon B. Hinckley.
— Joseph Wirthlin
God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us. He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.
— Beth Moore
For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
— Beverly Lewis
if you can't have a say in your child's life during her preschool years, how can you expect to influence her to make wise choices when she's a teenager?
— Beverly Lewis
Have ya ever thought that it's not what we think we ought to do that's essential for happiness, but what the Lord's leading us to do . . . and to be?" She smiled. "Ofttimes that can be two very different things.
— Beverly Lewis