Quotes About Wisdom

... God gave you just one mouth but He gave you two ears, so you should listen twice as much as you speak

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

When you fear God you fear nothing else!

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs.

God always takes the simplest way.

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

Thankfully, God's plans also happen to be much better than my own.

He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

I've learned... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for.

Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

Sometimes God guides by what He withholds, rather than what He provides.