#guidance

It is not love that keeps us stuck in the past. Love fades over time. What introspective hearts seek is simply unanswered questions about why terrible things can happen to very good people. Closure never comes from reflection. It only comes from God's guidance and promptings. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#loss-of-family #love #past-experiences #experience

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother. ↗

— Russell Baker

#classic #grandmother #guidance #his #his way

I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #guidance #life-plan #dreams

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. ↗

— Anne Sullivan

#far #guidance #instruction #more #require

A blocked path also offers guidance. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#blocked #guidance #offers #path

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management. ↗

— Cheryl Crawford

#gifts #great #guidance #inspirational #lee

Americans of our own time - minority and majority Americans alike - need the continued guidance that the Voting Rights Act provides. We have come a long way, but more needs to be done. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

#alike #come #continued #done #guidance

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#every #every time #feel #follow #guidance

Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#climate #fulfilling #go #guidance #indeed