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Quotes About Wisdom

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
~ Dean Koontz
Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
~ Francois Fenelon
I'm glad God has all the answers, 'cause I barely understand the questions.
~ Barbara Johnson
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
~ Bede Griffiths
The way to get the mind of God, is seek to know the heart of God!
~ Brian Houston
The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.
~ Leon M. Lederman
Do not measure God's mind by your own.
~ George MacDonald
Our ignorance of God is too great, because our estimations of God are too little.
~ Stephen Charnock
The mind of the many is not the mind of God.
~ George MacDonald
It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.
~ Martin Luther
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.
~ Stephen Levine
God be thanked for books! They are the voices of the distant and the dead.
~ James A. Baldwin
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His.
~ George Washington Carver
The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.
~ J. Vernon McGee
God knows better than we do what we need.
~ Victor Hugo
If you think you understand, it isn't God.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
~ Cindy Crawford
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.
~ Charles Spurgeon
He knows what He is doing with me. I cannot always understand His way, but I am content in the realization that He knows what is best. That is surrender.
~ Daya Mata
They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.
~ John Flavel
A person God himself deems as wise is one who not only hears His voice, but immediately begins to act upon His instruction.
~ Erwin McManus
Judging others' intentions is the right of God alone. We don't have this right, and it is poor manners with God.
~ Habib Ali al-Jifri
God is silent. Everything comes out of silence.
~ Mother Meera
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small.
~ Friedrich von Logau