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Quotes about Guidance

We must beg the Holy Spirit, with ardent longing, to give us these fruits. The Holy Ghost alone knows how to bring to light the sweetness hidden away under the rugged exterior of the words of the Law. We must go to the Holy Ghost for interior guidance.
— St Bonaventure
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
— Francis de Sales
Make yourself familiar with the angels, and behold them frequently in spirit for without being seen, they are present with you.
— Francis de Sales
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
— Saint Jerome
Sweet Love say Where, how and when What do you want of me? Yours I am, for You I was born: What do you want of me? . . .
— Teresa of Avila
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
— Samuel Beckett
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
— Samuel Johnson
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
— Samuel Rutherford
She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.
— Samuel Rutherford
Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state35 it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth.
— Samuel Rutherford