Quotes About Wisdom

Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

If you have humility you are halfway to God-realization.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.

I have the body of a GOD

When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

God has to nearly kill us sometimes, to teach us lessons.

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

I have made the world's faith in God my own and as my faith is effaceable, I regard that faith as amounting to experience.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

If we keep demanding that God yield up His answers, perhaps some day we will understand them. And then we will be something more than clever apes, and we shall dance with God.

Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.

God has forgiven you; you'd be wise to do the same