Quotes About Wisdom

Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue.

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

God is simple, everything else is complex

To despise doctrine is to despise the Word of God.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Never dwell on the tomorrow; remember, that it's God's and not ours.

Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

God bless the Reference Librarians

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so he that sees God sees everything else.

The word of God teacheth lowliness of mind; it teacheth us to know ourselves.

For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.