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Guidance Quotes


"Don't spoil kids by trying to buy them off, to buy their time. Kids aren't stupid. They know a bribe when they see one. They want a parent not a payoff."


"Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight."


"The light of God illuminated my path."


"Choose your counsel, company and companions wisely: beware seeking wise words of advice from a fool or expecting informed opinions or decisions from the ignorant."


"A man cannot be aware of his destination without the help of his creator."


"Without the fear of God it is impossible to say 'No' to temptations and evil."


"If the path you walk is the right one, then the big question comes: How many people have you directed to that path?"



"There are two ways by which one will realize the life's goal. If we have not met a Gnani Purush, then we should live life in such a way, that we hurt no one. Our highest goal should be to not hurt any living being in the slightest. The other way is if you encounter the Gnani Purush, then you should remain in the Gnani's satsang. In doing so, all your work will be accomplished. All the 'puzzles' will be solved."


"Your heart is your compass in the journey of life, follow it."


"The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal."


"Everyone loves to walk in the footprints of successful people, even without understanding whom footprints they walk in."


"Were I a Roman Catholic, perhaps I should on this occasion vow to build a chapel to some saint, but as I am not, if I were to vow at all, it should be to build a light-house. [Letter to his wife, 17 July 1757, after narrowly avoiding a shipwreck; often misquoted as "Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."]"



"When one cautions you, he is a 'lighthouse' and if one find faults with the lighthouse, when will that ship reach safely [to its destination]?."


"When truth becomes like a football that is kicked and tossed around by passers-by. That grieves God's heart."


"God will never lead contrary to His word-so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence."


"The stag's enormous head turned slightly-toward the wagon, toward the small window.The Lord of the North.So the people of Terrasen will always know how to find their way home, she'd once told Ansel as they lay under a blanket of stars and traced the constellation of the stag. So they can look up at the sky, no matter where they are, and know Terrasen is forever with them."


"Guide humbly. Guide happily. Guide hopefully. Guide honorably."


"Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up."


"Learn to recognize omens, and follow them."



"If you are lost while travelling on the road, then if you ask a guide of the road, you will find the right way. Similarly, people have become lost on their way to moksha. They will find a solution when they meet the One (Gnani, the Enlightened One) who is familiar with the way to moksha. 'We' are that guide to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!"


"God reveals to humanity, through His Word, the shortest route to success, prosperity and well-being."


"Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest."


"Understanding divine order is to establish the kingdom of love."


"Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path."


"If you don't walk according to the Word of God, then you are on the way that leads to self-destruction."


"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."


"Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise."


"A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure."


"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."


"To instruct others is to engage the simplicity of receiving eternal life."



"Gnani's [The enlightened one's] sangna [directions] is the compass then it will take you to the end of your journey [Moksha, ultimate liberation]. And the worldly people's sangna [directions] is the compass then it will make you wander in the worldly life."
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