Quotes About Wisdom

Don't miss this point—though the famine phase is hard, it does not have to be void of joy. Look for the joy. It is there. Answered prayers, treasures of wisdom, and the peace of God's provision are waiting for you in this phase. Depending on God brings such joy as I would never know any other way.

You'll live your life making decisions with the Best Yes as your best filter. You'll be a grand display of God's Word lived out. Your undistracted love will make your faith ring true. Your wisdom will help you make decisions that will still be good tomorrow. And you'll be alive and present for all of it.

Quoting God's Word in the present tense infuses our hearts with holy restraint and diffuses our reactions so we don't spew.

1 Samuel 25:25

coated with unmet expectations. So, what do I do? Well, I've found it tremendously helpful to list the expectations I have of a relationship in which I'm feeling slighted. Then I prayerfully discern whether or not my expectations are realistic or unrealistic. And if I can't really discern one way or the other, I ask. I ask God. I ask that person. I ask someone wise who knows both of us well.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.

His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).

If we pay attention to foolish things or things that fuel foolishness in us, we will bankrupt our perspective. And we will be more likely to fall prey to Satan's schemes.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see. Bob

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.

Find a friend who can speak rationality into your irrational impulses. A friend who will hold you accountable, speak the truth in love, and pray for you.

The Best Yes is what we're after. Best Yes answers are much more likely to happen when we are in the habit of seeking wisdom. We have to put our hearts and our minds in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.

We need to ask for God's wisdom, revelation, and intervening power to be an integral part of our food choices from now on.

What, after all, is Heaven but a transition, from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate, to the fullness of all wisdom.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.