Quotes About Wisdom

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

God's Word will never fall into disrepair. But here's what happens when we don't travel on it: We fall into disrepair!

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

God, middle age is an unending insult.

We are not fountains ourselves; but the Word of God is the true fountain.

My years as a mystic have made me question almost all my assumptions. They've made me a proud I-don't-know-it-all.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Only a humble person can come to know God because the humble person can recognize that there is something more powerful, more complete and more perfect than they are.

God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you".

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

A lot of people just think that that's unreasonable or preposterous. But you know, if everybody chose to do it God's way, the world would be a lot better off.

I'm honest enough to say I don't know everything. You know, I don't. I don't understand all of God. I don't understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons