Quotes about Direction

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

images. What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide.

If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice--after all, it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice once and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening.

You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The universe is a trillion, trillion threads moving in seemingly unrelated directions. Yet when you look at them together, they create a remarkable tapestry.