Quotes About Wisdom

We do know God has instructed us to pray for leaders. Our duty, then, is to pray for wise decisions, but to trust when foolish and harmful decisions are made.

Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

The fact is we do not know what God is doing through a particular set of circumstances or events.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees" (Psalm 119:71).

God never has to agonize over a decision. He does not even have to deliberate within Himself or consult others outside of Himself. His wisdom is intuitive, infinite, and infallible: "His understanding has no limit" (Psalm 147:5).

in order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

For us to trust God in times of adversity, we must believe in God's sovereignty, His love, and His wisdom. Of these three truths, the sovereignty of God seems to be questioned the most frequently and most stridently. It seems we will allow God to be anywhere except upon His throne ruling His universe according to His good pleasure and His sovereign will.

Empiricism isn't true, and it is time to put away childish things.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

But the question I am pressing is how the "dagger" can continue to serve its purpose once we have seen through the fact that it is a shadowy illusion.

I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct.

I turned down 'Some Like It Hot.' See how smart I am? I felt I couldn't bring anything funny to it. The outfit was funny. I don't need to compete with the wardrobe.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

Lord, help me resist the inclination to rely upon my own wisdom and strength which makes me vulnerable to temptation. Help me avoid fleeing responsibility and neglecting to run to You for refuge. My natural instincts would lead me to a position in which the enemy would defeat me, but You are my righteousness. I seek You and long to see Your face.

Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of physical evidence we have that people are still thinking.

It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught myself. I might have ended up the only man in the rest home who still thought Jack Kerouac was cool.

Ka?dy cz?owiek ma jak?? racj?, tylko nie ka?da racja wychodzi na zdrowie.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keeping your mouth shut." —Albert Einstein

I'd been thirteen, not stupid, though a lot of people confuse the two.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.