Quotes About Direction

If we start off on a journey toward Mordor without our bearings, tagging along with people we know nothing about and care nothing about, we might decide to go AWOL.

This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

A crowd exists so long as it has an unattained goal.

La massa ha bisogno di una direzione. Essa è in movimento e muove verso qualcosa. La direzione comune a tutti gli appartenenti rinforza la sensazione di eguaglianza.

You don't need a weatherman—to know which way the wind blows.

But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love what God commands, in the words of the collect, and to desire what He promises? Did I want what I wanted, or did I want what He wanted, no matter what it might cost?

The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.

Guidance for Israel in their wanderings was unquestionable (Numbers 9). There could be no doubt if God wished them to move. Shall my Father be less definite with me? I cannot believe so. Often I doubt, for I cannot see, but surely the Spirit will lead as definitely as the pillar of cloud. I must be as willing to remain as to go, for the presence of God determines the whereabouts of His people.

What I'm telling you is, productivity is meaningless unless you know what your goal is," he says.

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

What Maddy has come to believe is that certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it's wrong; and if they move in that direction, that's wrong, too.

The mind has a way of protecting the heart, of turning one's gaze in a certain direction, away from what it should focus on. One

certain life circumstances make for people who walk with a psychic limp for all of their days. Never mind the progress they seem to make, peel back a few delicate layers and there it is: a stubborn doubting of worth; an inability to stand with conviction behind anything without wondering if they should be standing there at all; a sense that if they move in this direction, it's wrong; and if they move in that direction, that's wrong, too.

We are meant to use what we have, whatever it is. We are meant to be less mindful of our insides, more outwardly directed.

without the stars there to remind us, whatever would we reach for?" Her

Obedience is a foundational stepping-stone on the path of God's will.

God has written His divine guidelines for your life right in the Bible.

Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God's will.

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

God's Word is a map you can safely follow as you travel through life.

Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.

it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you ARE lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.

Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do.

When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered a few feet off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.