Quotes about Guidance

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

Inappropriate, anxiety-driven, fear-driven work would only interfere with and distract from what God was already doing. My "work" assignment was to pay more attention to what God does than what I do, and then to find, and guide others to find, the daily, weekly, yearly rhythms that would get this awareness into our bones. Holy Saturday for a start. And then Sabbath keeping. Staying in touch with people in despair, knowing them by name, and waiting for resurrection.

I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.