Quotes about Direction

tithing isn't something I do to clear my conscience so I can do whatever I want with the 90 percent--it also belongs to God! I must seek his direction and permission for whatever I do with the full amount. I may discover that God has different ideas than I do.

America has swerved from its ethical center.

I've always been envious of certainty, of people who always seemed to have a plan for their lives.

The lifting up of themselves for which he gives them freedom is not a movement which is formless, or to which they themselves have to give the necessary form. It takes place in a definite form and direction. Similarly, their looking to Jesus as their Lord is not an idle gaping. It is a vision that stimulates those to whom it is given to a definite action.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Thoughts that most frequently occupy the mind determine a man's course of action.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

When a man loses his vision of the future he dies.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

Money makes the world go round, but love makes the universe go in every direction.

A lucky person gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they're about to do and thinks it still matters.