Quotes about Direction

God promises you a way out. Find that way out, and take it.

What science is showing us today is what God told us through Solomon almost three thousand years ago: "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 NKJV). So if both the Bible and modern science teach us that our lives are moving in the direction of our strongest thoughts, then we need to make time for introspection and ask ourselves, "Do I like the direction my thoughts are taking me?

Bad decisions can pile up to make a wall between you and what God wants you to do.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat-drift on faith for a while.

I think of an old sermon my grandfather quoted from time to time— something about not looking back when you're plowing a field, but instead finding a mark in the distance and focusing on that. Otherwise, the rows won't come out straight.

images. What does a lighthouse do? I ask myself. It never moves. It cannot hike up its rocky skirt and dash into the ocean to rescue the foundering ship. It cannot calm the waters or clear the shoals. It can only cast light into the darkness. It can only point the way. Yet, through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Show this old lighthouse the way.

If the Almighty directs our steps, we've no need to look back over our shoulders.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Guidance is first of all a relationship with the Guide.

If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice--after all, it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice once and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening.