Quotes About Wisdom

the whole Bible—indeed, the whole of our life before God.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.

If you bury yourself in Psalms, you emerge knowing God and understanding life.

Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.

This current state of affairs may prevent otherwise thoughtful people from seeing the value of what has traditionally been regarded as the best of "common sense" about life and of what has been preserved in the wisdom traditions of most cultures—especially in two of the greatest world sources of wisdom about the human self, the Judeo-Christian and the Greek, the biblical and the classical.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

It is desirable to base our beliefs on knowledge wherever possible. Knowledge stabilizes true belief and makes it more effectual for good as well as more accessible and shareable.

knowledge is the basis of belief, and, when it is, it gives the belief a very different bearing upon life.

Anyone who can find a better way than Jesus, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

have always replied that I will be glad to enter a joint inquiry with so and so, but I will not debate. We will seek the truth together.

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change, and when we are right, make us easy to live with!

So God uses our self-knowledge or self-awareness, which is heightened and given a special quality by his presence and direction, to search us out and reveal to us the truth about ourselves and our world.

So those who hear me and do what I say are like those intelligent people who build their homes on solid rock, where rain and floods and winds cannot shake them. MATT. 7:24–25 Train them to do everything I have told you. MATT. 28:20 The Course of Studies in the Master Class These words from Jesus show that it must be possible to hear and do what he said. It also must be possible to train his apprentices in such a way that they routinely do everything he said was best.

We live from our depths—most of which we do not understand. "Do

our minds have come down to us through history

Indeed, for anyone who has a genuine knowledge of God, praise is the only appropriate attitude in which to live. It is the only sane attitude.

To say that "the righteous (or just) shall live by faith" does not mean that they live by blind and irresponsible leaps in total absence, or even in defiance, of knowledge. It does not mean that the "just" live in a state of ignorance or stupidity.1 They do on occasion act in specific ways beyond what they know, but only within a framework of knowledge that makes such action reasonable.

we are not only asking to be forgiven, we are asking for guidance and wisdom and strength to respond differently tomorrow.

an aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick…

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of given facts or assumptions. It extends the information we have and enables us to see the "larger picture"—to see it clearly and to see it wholly. And it undermines false or misleading ideas and images as well. It reveals their falseness to those who wish to know.

Belief cannot reliably govern life and action except in its proper connection with knowledge and with the truth and evidence knowledge involves.

An understanding of ordinary logic is no longer a required part of university degree programs, as was almost universally the case sixty years ago. Now, as a result, our world is full of uneducated people with higher degrees. They

God's sovereignty is not an invitation to passivity. Instead, it is a call to wise and risky creativity.

Mark Twain said the same thing better: "Heaven for climate; hell for society.