Quotes about Direction

Redemption is as comprehensive as Creation and Fall. God does not save our souls while leaving our minds to function on their own. He redeems the whole person. Conversion is meant to give new direction to our thoughts, emotions, wills and habits.

There are many ways to go wrong, but only one path leads back to God. There

if you want God's blessing, He must be the architect of the vision.

I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said, is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind. It

I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a consensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the regent's axiom: a leader, he said is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, to realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".

Desire in itself is empty, in other words it merely indicates direction, but never destination; destinations, in any case, always remain phantasmagoric and unclear; the closer we get to them, the more enigmatic they become. By no means is it possible to ever actually attain a given destination, nor, in so doing, appease desire.

Am I like that lost day when you fly east, and that regained night that comes from going west?

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.