Quotes about Guidance
Don't allow others to persuade you to compromise your integrity as you follow God's will.
— Henry Blackaby
If you have a heart for living God's way, you will want to ensure that your life is answerable to him (Ps. 25:4-5).
— Henry Blackaby
Christians arrange their lives based on the revelation of God, regardless of whether it makes sense to them. God does not ask for our opinion about what is best for our future, our family, our church, or our country. He already knows! What God wants is to get the attention of His people and reveal to us what is on His heart and what is His will, for God's ways are not our ways! (Isa. 55:8—9).
— Henry Blackaby
The lesson for Joshua was clear: walking with God was not about a method; it was about a relationship. Earlier
— Henry Blackaby
Faith accepts His divine command and steps out in a direction that only God can complete.
— Henry Blackaby
Have you received a word from the Master that awaits your next step of faith? If you will proceed with what He has told you, no matter how incredible it might seem, you will experience the joy of seeing your Lord perform a miracle, and so will those around you.
— Henry Blackaby
Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not thy back to the compass; accept the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly. To-morrow, in the natural sun, the skies will be bright; those who glared like devils in the forking flames, the morn will show in far other, at least gentler, relief; the glorious, golden, glad sun, the only true lamp - all others but liars!
— Herman Melville
While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
— Herman Melville
Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.
— Thomas Monson
If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.
— Charles Stanley
Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until it shall expect nothing else but to yield to their wishes.
— Ellen White
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
— DL Moody