Quotes about Direction

PERHAPS ONE OF the reasons I've avoided having a clear ambition is that second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose. It's always been this way.

We aren't sure what we want in life, there is no story question in our lives either. And if there is no story question inviting us to take action, we will lose interest in our own lives.

I wonder if what might help couples build great families is to pick a place for their family to go and then hit the gas, to work toward their vision and build it out. Relationships have a way of stabilizing when in motion. Until then, they just feel like a road trip to nowhere.

Providence is the way God leads the man who will not be led.

Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.

Thus hath the Lord said, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths, where the good way is and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls (Jeremiah 6:16).

We cannot do better than follow His plan.

God says expressly, Train up a child in the way he should go, and He never gave a command that He did not give man grace to perform.

His pleasures and wishes must not determine his direction. He doesn't know yet what is good for his mind and soul, any more than what is good for his body.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.