Since God will be my end
Let Him be my beginning.
So that I may now fully live
Instead of falling, straying, sinning.
Angelus Silesius
Guidance
Christian Quotes About Guidance
James Keller — Lord, help me…
Lord, help me to accomplish great things for Thee by doing the little things that lie at hand.
James Keller
Unknown — As the minister stepped up to the pulpit…
As the minister stepped up to the pulpit he discovered to his chagrin that he had forgotten his sermon notes. As it was too late to send someone for them, he turned to the congregation and said, by way of apology, that this morning he should have to depend upon the Lord for what he might say, but that for the evening service, he would be better prepared.
Unknown
Andrew Bonar — It is easy to follow a person’s footprints…
It is easy to follow a person’s footprints if we walk close behind him, but if we walk some distance back, we might fail to see them as clearly. Similarly, if we follow close after the Lord, we would easily see the footsteps along the way, but if we try to follow afar off, we would find it difficult to know the path of His will.
Andrew Bonar
Jill Briscoe — No one has any more time…
No one has any more time than you have. It is the discipline and stewardship of your time that is important. The management of time is the management of self; therefore if you manage time with God, He will be begin to manage you.
Jill Briscoe
Henry Edward Manning — A priest ought to be in no place…
A priest ought to be in no place where his Master would not go, nor employed in anything which his Master would not do.
Henry Edward Manning
Henry Blackaby — People who make decisions…
People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God’s best. Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby
Unknown — The Will of God will never take you…
The Will of God will never take you to where the Grace of God will not protect you.
Unknown
Alexander Carmichael — Be thou a bright flame…
Be thou a bright flame before me,
Be thou a guiding star above me,
Be thou a smooth path below me,
And be a kindly Shepherd behind me,
Today, tonight and for ever.
Alexander Carmichael
Thomas Merton — My Lord God…
My Lord, God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following Your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. And I know that if I do this, You will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death, I will not fear, for You are ever with me and You will never leave me to face my perils alone.
Thomas Merton
Leo Tolstoy — We regret losing a purse full of money…
We regret losing a purse full of money, but a good thought which has come to us, which we’ve heard or read, a thought which we should have remembered and applied to our life, which could have improved the world- we lose this thought and promptly forget about it, and we do not regret it, though it is more precious than millions.
Leo Tolstoy
Corrie ten Boom — I am eighty-five years old…
I am eighty-five years old and I am so thankful that I am able to continue the work I love. God has a plan for every life. All of us are called to be the light of the world wherever He places us. We are within His perfect guidance when we trust and obey Him. A tool does not decide where to work. It is the Master who decides where it is to be used.
Corrie ten Boom
Oswald Chambers — When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first…
When you meet a man or woman who puts Jesus Christ first, knit that one to your soul.
Oswald Chambers
Catherine Marshall — When we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us…
When we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us, He will concern Himself with how we use our time and spend our money; with honesty and moral integrity and Christlike quality of character; with what is happening to our children; with the health of our relationship with other people and with our God. If our need is severe enough, the Holy Spirit will turn our lives upside down.
Catherine Marshall
Horace Bushnell — If you go to Him to be guided…
If you go to Him to be guided, He will guide you, but He will not comfort your distrust or half-trust of Him by showing you the chart of all His purposes concerning you. He will show you only into a way where, if you go cheerfully and trustfully forward, He will show you on still farther.
Horace Bushnell
Charles Swindoll — In the soul-searching of our lives…
In the soul-searching of our lives, we are to stay quiet so we can hear Him say all that He wants to say to us in our hearts.
Charles Swindoll
Oswald Chambers — God does not have to come and tell me…
God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him… When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.
Oswald Chambers
Leaves of Gold — There is only one basis for really enjoying life…
There is only one basis for really enjoying life, and that is, to walk in the way in which God leads you. Then you are prepared to find delight in all sorts of wayward incidents….When a man is drifting through life, seeking nothing outside of self-gratification, the world must become increasingly a barren and forbidding wilderness. But it is wonderful how many delights fall to the lot of him who is led by God. For such a one the clasp of a friend’s hand, a cool drink in the heat of noon, a merry salutation from a passing traveler, a glimpse of beauty by the road, a quiet resting place at night, are all full of unspeakable pleasure.
Leaves of Gold
John Piper — But whatever you do…
But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.
John Piper
C. S. Lewis — Those who put themselves in His hands…
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain.
C. S. Lewis
Hannah W. Smith — Let me entreat you…
Let me entreat you to give up all your efforts after growing, and simply to let yourselves grow. Leave it all to the Husbandman whose care it is, and who alone is able to manage it. No difficulties in your case can baffle Him. If you will only put yourselves absolutely into His hands, and let Him have His own way with you, no dwarfing of your growth in the years that are past, no apparent dryness of your inward springs of life, no crookedness or deformity in your development can in the least mar the perfect work that He will accomplish.
Hannah W. Smith
Vance Havner — Our salvation includes more…
Our salvation includes more than pardon from sin, deliverance from hell and a ticket to heaven. It includes all that we shall need on our journey.
Vance Havner
George Washington — Of all the dispostions and habits…
Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.
George Washington
Norman Vincent Peale — One of the most powerful concepts…
One of the most powerful concepts, one which is a sure cure for lack of confidence, is the thought that God is with you and helping you. This is one of the simplest teachings in religion, namely, that Almighty God will be your companion, will stand by you, help you, and see you through. No other idea is so powerful in developing self-confidence as this simple belief when practiced. To practice it simply affirm “God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.” Spend several minutes each day visualizing his presence. Then practice believing that affirmation.
Norman Vincent Peale
Donald Grey Barnhouse — I can say from experience…
I can say from experience that 95% of knowing the will of God consists in being prepared to do it before you know what it is.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
Unknown — “Be yourself” is about the worst advice…
“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you could give some people.
Unknown
Max Lucado — Mark it down…
Mark it down. God never turns away the honest seeker. Go to God with your questions. You may not find all the answers, but in finding God, you known the One who does.
Max Lucado
C. S. Lewis — The moment you wake up each morning…
The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life coming flowing in.
C. S. Lewis
Frederick Buechner — The place God calls you…
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Frederick Buechner
Harvey Rich — How do you celebrate the everyday moment…
How do you celebrate the everyday moment? Learn from children, puppies and other experts.
Harvey Rich
Unknown — Always ask…
Always ask, “What would Jesus do?”
Unknown
Unknown — Each day just ask Jesus to go with you…
Each day just ask Jesus to go with you and listen to his counsel. Ask for discernment and wisdom and The God of all will grant you these things for he has promised to answer whatever you ask if you ask for something which is in his will for you. The only time it won’t go well with you, if the Lord wants you somewhere else.
Unknown
Dennis Watson — In some ways I find guidance…
In some ways I find guidance, if anything, gets harder rather than easier the longer I am a Christian. Perhaps God allows this so that we have to go on relying on him and not on ourselves.
Dennis Watson
Augustus Strong — Faith is self-surrender…
Faith is self-surrender to the great Physician, a leaving of our case in his hands. But it is also the taking of his prescriptions and the active following of his directions.
Augustus Strong
John Stott — When Jesus is truly our Lord…
When Jesus is truly our Lord, he directs our lives and we gladly obey him. Indeed, we bring every part of our lives under his lordship- our home and family, our sexuality and marriage, our job or unemployment, our money and possessions, our ambitions and recreations.
John Stott
Unknown — The essential truth…
The essential truth is that discernment is a function of a loving, personal relationship to the Lord. It can normally be only as deep and as solid as that relationship itself. The true discerner must be a praying, loving person.
Unknown
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