Quotes About Direction

Well did the Puritan John Owen say, "Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness is the soul and substance of all false religion."[2] Mortification must be done by the strength and under the direction of the Holy Spirit.

make His purpose your purpose.

He will direct it according to His sovereign purpose for His glory and our good.

Yet God controls the king's heart. The stubborn will of the most powerful monarch on earth is directed by God as easily as the farmer directs the flow of water in his irrigation canals.

Don't keep on with what is wrong. Look ahead, not behind.

It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

If you FOCUS on your PRIORITIES---You ELIMINATE all of your CONFUSION.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

We need such an object of devotion in order to integrate our energies in one direction, to transcend our isolated existence, with all its doubts and insecurities, and to answer our need for a meaning to life.

almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to

Unless he belonged somewhere, unless his life had some meaning and direction, he would feel like a particle of dust and be overcome by his individual insignificance.

Man lives, you're right! Whoever seeks further is already lost.

Stand with your back to the wind," he said, "and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.

If this Government remains in power for another year and carries on in the same measure in this direction, it will go far towards making Germany a danger to world peace for years

For the first time he began to wonder whether he should jettison his transatlantic dream and settle for something more quotidian, perhaps focus his company on ship-to-shore communication. There was

But you will ride it—instead of being driven before it—Thank Heaven that you are there, & at the helm of our destiny

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first." WILLIAM JAMES

I never had to choose my subject- my subject rather chose me.

Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?