So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.
Interpretation
People seek divine guidance but often want to avoid taking responsibility for their own decisions.
This quote reflects on the tendency of individuals to desire guidance from a higher power, such as God, as a means of feeling reassured or validated in their choices. However, it emphasizes that this desire for reassurance can sometimes be an excuse to evade the personal responsibility that comes with making important life decisions, suggesting that true guidance comes from within rather than relying solely on external influences.
In practice
In a discussion about decision-making, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of personal responsibility.
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.
The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.
Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
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