God's Guidance - Some Quotes

"The fundamental mode whereby our rational Creator guides his rational creatures is by rational understanding and application of his Word. It is not a matter of inward promptings apart from the Word but of the pressure on our consciences of the portrayal of God's character and will in the Word, which the Spirit enlightens us to understand and apply to ourselves." - Knowing God, J. I. Packer

"Trouble should always be treated as a call to consider one's ways, but trouble is not necessarily a sign of being off track at all: for as the Bible declares in general that 'many are the afflictions of the righteous' (Ps. 34:19, KJV), so it teaches in particular that following God's guidance regularly leads to upsets and distresses which one would otherwise have escaped." - Knowing God, J. I. Packer

"Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them." - Knowing God, J. I. Packer

"God's guidance, which brings us ou of darkness into light, will also bring us out of light into darkness. It is part of the way of the cross." - Knowing God, J. I. Packer

"If you are thinking that you know the will of God for your life and you are anxious to do that, you are probably in for a very rude awakening because nobody knows the will of God for his entire life." - Eternity, Elisabeth Elliot