GUIDANCE
Our best guide, when we are uncertain as to what to do, will be found in the answer
to the question, “What would Jesus do?” AM268
Learn from David to take no step without God. ME80
“Stand still;”—keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting
further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not
be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel,
“Go forward.” ME412
I will give you a little bit of worldly wisdom; it is this,—whenever you do not know
what to do, do not do it. PM127
If we do even a common thing without seeking the Lord’s direction, we may have to
repent it as long as we live. Even our common actions are edged tools; we must mind
how we handle them. 352.39
An aged Christian, being asked whether she would rather die or live, said, she would
rather it should be as God willed it. “But if you might have your choice, which would
you have?” “If I might have my choice,” said she, “I would ask God to choose for me,
for I should be afraid to choose for myself.” 488.17
Omniscience shall bow itself to instruct your ignorance. Infinite power shall stoop
that you may lean upon its shoulder. Boundless love shall deign without any
degradation to take you by the hand and pick your pathway for you, and infinite
patience shall continue to direct every step of your course, till you are brought to your
home at last. 1310.473
I wish that sometimes God’s people would be more careful to ask their way of God; I
fear that they too often err by blundering on, and taking no heed to their way. When
I get into a part of the country where I do not know the road, I ask my way of almost
everybody I see; because I think that there will not be half the time spent in asking
the way that will be wasted in going wrong. 2116.639
We generally make our worst mistakes in matters which appear to us to be so plain
that we think we do not need direction from God concerning them. 3063.524
Do not consider that adverse circumstances are a proof that you have missed your
road; for they may even be an evidence that you are in the good old way, since the
path of believers is seldom without trial. 3128.37