Quotes About Wisdom

Every pure thought is a glimpse of God.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God's grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Arrogance is actually just ignorance. Ignorance of what you really are in relation to the world-but most of all in relation to God.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.

Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.

The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ's side must work to save, not to destroy.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

The trees are God's great alphabet: With them He writes in shining green Across the world His thoughts serene.

It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism.

When you open your Bible, God opens His mouth.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.