Sermon quotes on direction
Al Bernstein
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
Peter Kreeft
The first rule for prayer, the most important first step, is not about how to do it, but to just do it; not to perfect and complete it but to begin it. Once the car is moving, it’s easy to steer it in the right direction, but it’s much harder to start it up when it’s stalled. And prayer is stalled in our world.
Ask Peter Kreeft: The 100 Most Interesting Questions He’s Ever Been Asked, Sophia Institute Press.
C.S. Lewis
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.
C.S. Lewis
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
David Livingstone
I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
John C. Maxwell
Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out walking or hiking and need to know we’re going in the right direction. But we also have an internal North Star. It’s that little nudge that tells us if we are on the right path to fulfilling our potential, or on the wrong path wasting energy traveling somewhere we don’t need to go. So my advice to you is, pull out that compass every once in a while and make sure you are navigating in the right direction on your journey.
John Newton
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need.
The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol.1, p.169.
Charles Spurgeon
You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord’s hand.
Alvin Toffler
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Rick Warren
Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
Oliver Cromwell-attributed
None climbs so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
John Baillie
I am sure that the bit of the road that most requires to be illuminated is the point where it forks.
Augustine of Hippo
Do you hesitate, man, to go this way, when this is the way that God came to you?
“Exposition II, Sermon I on Psalm 30,” in Expositions on the Book of Psalms, vol. 1, Parker, 1847, 249.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Ellen DeGeneres
Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
Charles Hummel
A fanatic has been described as a person who, when unsure of his direction, doubles his speed.
Freedom from Tyranny of the Urgent
Dennis Linn
The examen makes us aware of moments that at first we might easily pass by as insignificant, moments that ultimately can give direction for our lives.