WordNet
point the way
v. indicate the right path or direction; "The sign pointed the way to London"
Usage examples of "point the way".
Ages of darkness, wickedness, and violence, have come and gone - millions uncountable, have suffered, lived, and died - to point the way before him.
But if her conscience did not point the way, then she suffered agonies of indecision.
It was disastrous to his quest to forget the august and celestial faces of those seamen from the north who traded onyx in Celephais, and who, being the sons of gods, must point the way to the cold waste and Kadath where the Great Ones dwell.