Quotes About Wisdom

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Choose to view life through God's eyes.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

I want to know God's thoughts.

He who knows does not feel wonder. It could not be said that God experiences wonder, for God knows in the most absolute and perfect way.

Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.

When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

Happy the days that have been consecrated to the remembrance of God, and blessed the hours which have been spent in praise of Him Who is the All-Wise.

I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

All I have learned through trial and error is to stay alert and aware, especially God smiling @ our silliness.

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

The little saying, 'Be still and know that I Am God' ... contains the entire wisdom of religion in those few words.