Quotes about Guidance

God knows better than we do what we need.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Adorable ambuscades of providence!

The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.

And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!

All the nuns in the world are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's soul.

To shape the soul of a young girl, all the nuns in the world are not equal to one mother.

This is the shade of difference: the door of physicianshould never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

As for him, he took the path which shortens,—the Gospel's.

God was as visible in this affair as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool which he wills. He is not responsible to men.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.