Quotes About Direction

Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. —Proverbs 3:5–6

Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit's leading in every part of our lives. —Galatians 5:25

Obeying God's commands means living where He puts us. — Leta Deering

Following God's commands always leads to blessing. — Sarah Bergman —

Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.

I will lead blind Israel down a new path, guiding them along an unfamiliar way. I will brighten the darkness before them. —Isaiah 42:16

We don't know where we're going, but we're not going to stray from familiar paths.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal." —Robert Brault

Everyone always feels better when there's a plan.

Each time you go that road it gets more straight.

We define Christian spiritual direction, then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables that person to pay attention to God's personal

David G. Benner has defined spiritual direction as a prayer process in which a person seeking help in cultivating a deeper personal relationship with God meets another for prayer and conversation that is focused on increasing awareness of God in the midst of life experiences and facilitating surrender to God's will (2002:94).

I define spiritual direction as the interaction between one person, trained to listen for the movement of God, and another who desires to develop and cultivate an intimate, personal relationship with God.

Faith is, at heart, the central relationship that gives meaning to our life; we are able to interpret our experiences in light of that relationship. Or as Katherine Dyckman and L. Patrick Carroll put it, To `faith' is to hand over the direction of one's journey to another, to yield up . . . `the illusion of control' to someone who is essentially beyond our control, over whom we have no power (1981:8 9).

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

All destinations are final. That's what it means! Destiny...FINAL! If you haven't gotten to where you're going...YOU AREN'T THERE YET!

Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction

I sow all sorts of seeds, and get no great harvest from any one of them. I am cursed with susceptibility in every direction, and effective faculty in none. I care for painting and music; I care for classic literature, and mediæval literature, and modern literature; I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

Like one who has lost his way and is weary, she sat and saw as in one glance all the paths of her young hope which she should never find again.