Quotes About Direction

Cerremos nuestros ojos, usemos nuestra mente y percibamos cómo sería nuestra existencia si el velero de nuestra vida navegara siguiendo el rumbo que marcan nuestras prioridades y las velas las impulsara el viento de nuestros valores.

Pero como aprendí varios años más tarde, las equidistancias nunca duran mucho, y tenía que decidirme por una u otra orilla. Y estaba claro que yo pertenecía sólo a una de ellas.

En realidad, sólo existe la dirección que tomamos, lo que puede haber sido ya no vale

En realidad, solo existe la dirección que tomamos. Lo que pude haber sido ya no vale. Nadie acepta esa moneda; yo tampoco.

un día algo nos aparta un poco de la ruta y otro día otro poquito y así de deriva en deriva hasta que una de esas derivas se convierte en nuevo rumbo ni fijo ni incambiable ni retórico

Me tomó de un brazo y me dijo, casi apoyándose en mí: ¿Sabés lo que te pasa? Que no vas a ninguna parte.

without touching Annabelle, she managed to urge her along toward the vicarage.

I'm not sure what I'll do next, though. The problem with me is that I like to work; I like to do what I do well and completely; I just don't have a calling. Not yet, anyway

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

You go nowhere by accident. Wherever you go, God is sending you. Wherever you are, God has put you there; He has a purpose in your being there. Christ who indwells you has something He wants to do through you where you are. Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.

Life is full of goals to be identified and kept in sight. When we lose sight of the goal, we simply drift. Sometimes drift can mean disaster.

Without it, I'm coasting. With it, I'm gaining momentum

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9

Sometimes God gets in the way to show us the way.

New Testament scholar Dr. Gordon Fee said that life is a wilderness, and a compass doesn't help very much. A map certainly doesn't help because you have to know where you are for starters. What you need in a place you've never been before is a guide. Jesus becomes the Guide to the Father's house.

If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3

Goals have a way of refocusing your life. They give you purpose and a target to shoot for. They are the compass of our dreams, helping us set a steady course. Goals comprise direction and progress. When we lose sight of our goals, we tend to lose sight of ourselves and who we are trying to become, who God has made us to be.

The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.

God wants us to get where God wants us to go more than we want to get where God wants us to go.

Few promises are more circled in my Bible than Proverbs 16:9: "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.

Si buscas las respuestas, no las vas a hallar; pero si buscas a Dios, las respuestas te encontrarán a ti.

If we had the right civilian leadership, we would have responsive military leadership. But I ask you, how can you lead somebody when you don't know where you are going?

In boardrooms and bedchambers, in lecture halls and marketplaces, God is hardly seen as a player let alone the author, the one who holds in His hand each king's heart and directs it like a watercourse (Proverbs