Quotes About Wisdom

When revealed theology is reduced to an autonomous study of man, when biblical authority is replaced by an unstable human wisdom, when behavior is directed by the descriptions of social science instead of the prescriptions of God's Word, then we have returned to the situation prevailing at the time of the Book of Judges: every man will do what is right in his own eyes.

To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot.

Robert's problem was familiar to Aquinas. He called it ignorantia affectata, cultivated ignorance.

To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

When you can't tell the truth, tell *a* truth.

If I'd said that to my sensible, smutty, twelve-year-old self, he would have laughed until he hemorrhaged

life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards.

It's a beautiful thing to cultivate a genuine curiosity in others. As creatures made in the image of God, the people before you today hold great treasures of story, experience, and wisdom.

We judge and punish based on facts, but facts are not truth. Facts are like a buried skeleton uncovered long after death. Truth is fluid. Truth is alive. To know the truth requires understanding, the most difficult human art. It requires seeing all things at once, forward and backward, the way God sees.

Understanding is the essence of enlightenment. -Harrar

You say science is about admitting what we don't know," she said.

Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience.

Without faith, there is no proper understanding by which a man can judge. As Augustine well said, 'I believe in order to understand'.

Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.

The teaching of Colossians 2:3-8 is unambiguous. ALL knowledge (note: not simply knowledge of "religious" matters is to be found in Christ.

It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay special attention to the fact that throughout Scripture, God's veracity is not defended, but accepted from the outset on His authority. Unless we have more wisdom than that contained in the revelation of God, we should take the same attitude.

The foundation of knowledge is God's revelation.

All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are to be found in Christ; thus if one were to try and arrive at the truth apart from commitment to the epistemic authority of Jesus Christ he would be robbed through vain philosophy and deluded by crafty deceit (see Col. 2:3-8).

God's revelation is more than the best foundation for Christian reasoning; it is the only philosophically sound foundation for any reasoning whatsoever. Therefore, although the world in its own wisdom sees the word of Christ as foolishness, "the foolishness of God is wiser than men" (1 Cor. 1:18, 25).

1Only fools say in their hearts, "There is no God.

Don't drop your books. You might lose your lesson.

When youu take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country of thirty-minute power lunches and two-minute football drills. Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.