Quotes about Guidance

Spiritual leaders must help their people see beyond God's acts to recognize the way God consistently works with his people, time and time again. To do this, spiritual leaders must develop their own understanding and recognition of God's activity in their midst.

a person must pass the lessons learned on to others—or there has been no real gift at all.

Once you have met your own soul, you know that you are being guided. You are being led from within, and even the inexorable wheel of life is your teacher. It is the cycle of failure and renewal that slowly lowers you into the arms of a very safe God.

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Without law in some form, and, also, without butting up against that law, we cannot move forward easily or naturally. We have to have something hard and half-good to rebel against.

You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moseses leading you on any exodus.

When you get your "Who am I?" question right, all the "What should I do?" questions tend to take care of themselves.

The Dalai Lama said much the same thing: "Learn and obey the rules very well, so you will know how to break them properly.

Until and unless there is a person, situation, event, idea, conflict, or relationship that you cannot "manage," you will never find the True Manager. So, God makes sure that several things will come your way that you cannot manage on your own.

There is a deeper voice of God, which you must learn to hear and obey in the second half of life.

And it points forward, urging us toward the realization that this hint and taste of union might actually be true. It guides us like an inner compass or a "homing" device.

There are few in our religious culture who understand the necessity of mature internalized conscience, so wise guides are hard to find. You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moseses leading you on any exodus.