Quotes about Direction
Our relationships must be shaped not by what we want, but by what God intends.
- Timothy Lane
Do you need encouragement, comfort, hope, direction, wisdom, courage, rebuke, warning, forgiveness, patience, teaching, correction, thanks, insight, a job description, or something else? My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.
- Timothy Lane
Wouldn't you rather be asked a question than be given an order?
- Dale Carnegie
Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration.
- Dale Carnegie
It is much more important to cultivate the quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction.
- Dallas Willard
Thoughts are where we make our first movements toward God and where the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.
- Dallas Willard
So God uses our self-knowledge or self-awareness, which is heightened and given a special quality by his presence and direction, to search us out and reveal to us the truth about ourselves and our world.
- Dallas Willard
Believe our only hope for leaders to increasingly work in the way of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, in the power of Jesus and under the direction of Jesus will be as they have passed through stages that help them learn the soul work of surrender, abandonment, contentment and participation. There simply are no shortcuts.
- Dallas Willard
"And think not that you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
- Khalil Gibran
You see, we don't have enough sense to make these decisions. Somehow, you just get led to where you're supposed to be, if you're willing to submit.
- Wendell Berry
Se poate întâmpla ca, atunci când nu mai È™tim ce s? facem, s? fi ajuns la adev?rata noastr? munc?, iar când nu mai È™tim pe ce cale s? o lu?m, s? fi început adev?rata noastr? c?l?torie.
- Wendell Berry
He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.
- William Faulkner