Quotes about Guidance

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition.

We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrinth — a labyrinth to us inextricable, if the Word do not serve us as a thread to guide our path; and that it is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.

The providence of God, I grant, does not indeed preclude the faithful from caring for themselves; but let them do it in such a way, that they may not overstep their prescribed bounds.

Accordingly, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, leads us by the hand to find him.

Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.

The Church is our mother, inasmuch as God has committed to her the kind office of bringing us up in the faith until we attain full age.

If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.

We should always look to the Lord, that by His care we might be led to whatever lot in life He provides for us.

natural reason can never guide men to Christ. Even

Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God

As far as pertains to those secret promptings we are discussing, Solomon's statement that the heart of a king is turned about hither and thither at God's pleasure [Prov. 21:1] certainly extends to all the human race, and carries as much weight as if he had said: "Whatever we conceive of in our minds is directed to his own end by God's secret inspiration."