Quotes about Direction

What we need to learn is always there before us, we just have to look around us with respect and attention in order to discover where God is leading us and which step we should take next.

We make a lot of detours, but we're always heading for the same destination

I'm afraid of committing myself," she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.

I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him. [...] We, people hearts, seldom say much about these treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later we simple let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own path laid out for them — the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place. p.125

Long before Abraham's servant traveled to Mesopotamia, God had appointed Rebekah to be the bride of Isaac. "The angel of the LORD will direct you," Abraham told the servant. "He'll lead you to the one.

God's Word has the power to light our way and to clear the debris that has covered the path so we can walk in it.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

God's guidance is almost always step-by-step; He does not show us our life's plan all at once. Sometimes our anxiousness to know the will of God comes from a desire to peer over God's shoulder to see what His plan is. What we need to do is learn to trust Him to guide us.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.