Quotes About Wisdom

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

God's anger is kindled not because we have harmed him but because we have harmed ourselves.

Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.

Have you ever been tempted to start your own business? First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.

If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.

God is a geometrician.

If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

We have had to learn that history is neither a God nor a redeemer.

God, of course, is the greatest philosopher of all.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

O God, for as much as without Thee We are not enabled to doubt Thee, Help us all by Thy grace To convince the whole race It knows nothing whatever about Thee.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace

Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.