Quotes about Guidance

Lord, speak to me about Your will for my life so that I can always walk in it. Your will is a place of safety and protection for me, and I need to know I am headed in the right direction. Help me to hear Your voice speaking to my heart telling me what to do, especially with regard to the decisions I need to make each day of my life.

But when our children are adults and making many decisions on their own without input from us, we see all the possible serious consequences of making the wrong ones. And we also see how we will be paying for those wrong decisions right along with them. When we observe life happening to our adult children in a challenging way, we want to help them. But how much is way overboard, and how little is not enough?

When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

I don't think God is ever done speaking into our lives. Even when we don't want to hear it. Even when our hearts are cold.

Every kid needs to say, 'I want what my mom and dad have.'

We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction.

My parents were definitely the biggest influence in my life.

My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don't allow to do the 'rule breaking' that we know as Christians we can't.

I have learnt not to ignore instincts. While making a film, when your gut feels that you are going wrong, please take that seriously.

The interesting thing I realized writing the 'X-Men' is I always had a sense of where I was going.

Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock.