Quotes about Guidance
Our children are not extensions of ourselves. We did not create them; God did. We are here to supervise their development, not dictate their reality. They are their own beings.
— Marianne Williamson
God wants you to get where God wants you to go more than you want to get where God wants you to go.
— Mark Batterson
God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.
— Mark Batterson
The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.
— Mark Driscoll
The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.
— Mark Driscoll
the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.
— Mark Driscoll
Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life
— Aristotle
Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.
— Sinclair Ferguson
Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.
— Henri Nouwen
Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.
— Hillary Clinton
The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.
— Jimmy Carter