Quotes about Guidance

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

I have great faith in optimism as a guiding principle, if only because it offers us the opportunity of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

We must build our faith not on fading lights but on the Light that never fails.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

God's supernatural self-control is available to us when we walk by the Spirit.

But to guide nations in the way of Truth By saving Doctrine, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God aright, Is yet more knightly, this attracts the Soul, Governs the inner man, the nobler part, That other o'er the body only reigns, And oft by force, which to a generous mind so reigning can be no sincere delight.

God's purpose in guidance is not to get us to perform the right actions. His purpose is to help us become the right kind of people.

It only makes sense to ask God for guidance in the context of a life committed to "seeking first the kingdom.

Interpretis officium est, non quid ipse velit, sed quid sentiat ille quem interpretatur, exponere," Hieron. Apol. adv. Rufin.;—for when the mind is really affected with the discovery of truth itself, it will be guided and directed in the declaration of it unto others.

It is the duty of a shepherd to know the state of his flock; and unless he do so he will never feed them profitably.