Quotes about Guidance

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

The questions today are different, and if people don't get answers from pastors and parents, they will find them in dark, depraved places.

The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.

the world has enough politicians; it needs more prophets.

Teachers should be more honored than parents, for whereas parents give their children life, teachers give their children a good life

Commandments are the railroad tracks on which the life empowered by the love of God poured into the heart by the Holy Spirit runs. Love empowers the engine; law guides the direction. They are mutually interdependent. The notion that love can operate apart from law is a figment of the imagination. It is not only bad theology; it is poor psychology. It has to borrow from law to give eyes to love.

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and where we can respond freely to God's guidance.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

Every life will be better if God is at the center of it.