Quotes About Wisdom

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

Teach us to make the most of our time … and make our efforts successful. Yes, make our efforts successful! —Psalm 90:12, 17 NLT

A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city, and contentions are like the bars of a castle. —PROVERBS 18:19

Holy fear is the key to God's sure foundation, unlocking the treasuries of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. Along with the love of God, it composes the very foundation of life! We will soon learn that we cannot truly love God until we fear Him, nor can we properly fear Him until we love Him.

God's weapons are His Word, wisdom, and counsel. Worldly weapons are society's philosophy, culture, customs, laws, or lifestyles that are contrary to God's Word. You may question, "The world has weapons?" Oh yes, there is a continual onslaught of hell via the world's system to compromise the Christian and unbeliever alike.

The Lord then brought to my remembrance that His Word did not say, Children, obey your parents only if they are born again. He explained, You are my Child; therefore, I place My wisdom and instruction in the hearts of your parents for your guidance and protection.

When we possess solely a head knowledge, two things can happen: (1) we are easily susceptible to hype or emotionalism, or (2) we are bound by our intellect.

to fear God we must both know and obey His ways above all else.

The king was to read the Word of God every day. Why? God's wisdom and honor were to be established in his heart so that he would esteem God's ways above man's ideas.

There is nothing good for you outside of God's wisdom or Word, nothing at all.

We cannot discern what is truly good for our lives without first having our minds renewed.

The wisdom or counsel of God is deep water and is often a mystery to the natural mind.

is good enough? In these times the terms good and God are seemingly synonymous. We believe that what is generally accepted as good must be aligned with God's will. Generosity, humility, and justice are good. Selfishness, arrogance, and cruelty are evil. The distinction seems pretty straightforward. But is that all there is to it? If good is so obvious, why does Hebrews 5:14 teach that we must have discernment to recognize it?

We see then that the glory of the Lord is everything that makes God, God. All His characteristics, authority, power, wisdom-literally the immeasurable weight and magnitude of God-are contained within God's glory.

Most are deceived by and drawn to behavior and things that seem right, good, and wise but are contrary to His wisdom.

In His wisdom, He purposely withholds the revelation of His glory to see if we will serve Him with love and reverence, or turn our attention to that which receives glory on the earth yet pales in comparison to Him.

Holy fear is the key to God's sure foundation, unlocking the treasuries of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge.

We have much to say…since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. …But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (Hebrews 5:11–12, 14) It's

Problems always begin when people gather together in their own wisdom apart from God's power and presence.

Everything from God is good, but not everything good is from God.

Finally, there are numerous choices and ways that seem good, but their final outcome is sorrow, misery, loss, and death (see Proverbs 14:12). Think of it: our enemy, his servants, and his ways—all of which ultimately seek our demise—are all disguised as good. Scripture doesn't say they can be disguised, but rather that they are disguised. So do not miss this: usually, what is most dangerous to you will not appear as blatant evil. Rather, it will mask itself as good. In

Only through the mind can the world be seen. Only through the heart can it be understood.

Some things are just sitting there, waiting to be discovered. Other things are probably better off left alone

no man with any sense should marry the girl to whom he loses his virginity. It's like learning to drive in some clapped-out old banger and then holding on to it for the rest of your life when you've developed the skill to handle a BMW in rush-hour traffic on a busy Autobahn.