Quotes about Guidance
The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
— Jim Elliot
When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.
— E Stanley Jones
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
— John Calvin
To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
— AW Tozer
The great illusion of leadership is to think that man can be led out of the desert by someone who has never been there.
— Henri Nouwen
Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.
— John of the Cross
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
The deceit, the lie of the Devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man who walks with God always gets to his destination.
— Henrietta Mears
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
— Thomas Watson
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
— GK Chesterton