Quotes about Guidance

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both

To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble.

We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one way or another. Our burdens are here, our road is before us, and the longing for goodness and happiness is the guide that leads us through many troubles and mistakes to the peace which is a true Celestial City.

I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.

Ultimately, a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

we may be consoled that God has two lights; a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light to guide us in the darkness of the midnight when we are thwarted and the slumbering giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.

This would be an unbearable world were God to have only a single light, but we may be consoled that God has two lights: a light to guide us in the brightness of the day when hopes are fulfilled and circumstances are favorable, and a light to guide us in the darkness of the midnight when we are thwarted and the slumbering giants of gloom and hopelessness rise in our souls.

Use me God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.

Watson,' said he, 'if it should ever strike you that I am getting a little over-confident in my powers, or giving less pains to a case than it deserves, kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear, and I shall be infinitely obliged to you.