GUIDANCE

See also: Obedience

The Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire.

The Bible, Exodus 13:21 kjv

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

The Bible, Psalm 119:105 kjv

Where God guides, He provides.

Author unknown

And if any sudden call should occur, which we are not prepared to meet, let us not apply to others, till we first seek Christ.

Author unknown

I acted alone on God’s orders.

Yigal Amir, assassin of Yitzak Rabin, Israeli Prime Minister

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light. that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.”

Minnie L. Haskins

It is morally impossible to exercise trust in God while there is failure to wait upon Him for guidance and direction.

D.E. Hoste

When we fail to wait prayerfully for God’s guidance and strength, we are saying with our actions if not our lips, that we do not need him.

Charles Hummel

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not to do any particular thing, he finds a way of letting me know.

Abraham Lincoln

And I will place within them as a guide

my umpire Conscience,

whom if they will hear,

Light after light well used they shall attain,

And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

John Milton

Man proposes, God disposes.

Proverb

If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who will advise you to do what you were going to do anyway.

Weston Smith

Hang this question up in your houses – “What would Jesus do?” and then think of another – “How would Jesus do it?” For what Jesus would do, and how he would do it, may always stand as the best guide to us.

C.H. Spurgeon

It is not enough to hold that God did great things for our fathers: not enough to pride ourselves on the inheritance of victories of faith: not enough to build the sepulchers of those who were martyred by men unwilling, in their day of trial as we may be in our own, to hear new voices of a living God. Our duty is to see whether God is with us; whether we expect great things from Him; whether we do not practically place Him far off, forgetting that, if He is, He is about us, speaking to us words that have not been heard before, guiding us to paths on which earlier generations have not been able to enter.

Brooke Foss Westcott