Quotes about Advice

The good news that Jesus announced, like the good news that his first followers announced about him, was not a piece of advice, however good. It was about something that had happened, about something that would happen as a result, and about the new moment between those two, the moment in which people were in fact living, whether they realized it or not.

many people today assume that Christianity is one or more of these things—a religion, a moral system, a philosophy. In other words, they assume that Christianity is about advice. But it wasn't and isn't. Christianity is, simply, good news. It is the news that something has happened as a result of which the world is a different place.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.

Don't listen to the malicious comments of those friends who, never taking any risks themselves, can only see other people's failures.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,

“Because the people come to me to inquire of God,” Moses replied.

But Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and may God be with you. You must be the people’s representative before God and bring their causes to Him.

If you follow this advice and God so directs you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people can go home in peace.”

Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

And you answered me and said, “What you propose to do is good.”