Quotes about Counsel

I am not writing this to shame you, but to warn you as my beloved children.

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

In Him we were also chosen as God’s own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will,

I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.

The difference between a counsel and a commandment is that a commandment implies obligation, whereas a counsel is left to the option of the one to whom it is given.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade.

Men give advice; God gives guidance.

Their plans were improved with the best advice.