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Quotes About Wisdom

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!
~ Thomas Carlyle
If you do not see any good in these persons, then say nothing, but if you do see some, speak about it to honor God in them because all good proceeds from Him.
~ Vincent de Paul
Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there's always the chance that a folly will.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
From age to age an enlightened person comes along, one who has made friends with God. They're usually forgotten or scorned.
~ Frederick Lenz
God has the experience that comes from billions of years.
~ James Cook
Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
~ Janet Morris
Makes you wonder if the gods are always right.
~ Janet Morris
Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
~ Jennifer Aniston
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
~ John Henry Newman
What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.
~ Lew Wallace
God cannot be realized through intellect.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.
~ Max Anders
When someone goes out of himself to find God or fetch God, he is wrong.
~ Meister Eckhart
I can't tell what god will do because I'm not God. I can only take you back to biblical principle.
~ Paula White
A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.
~ Philip Yancey
Beware of bartering the Word of God for a more suitable conception of your own.
~ Oswald Chambers
God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and faith.
~ Richard Salter Storrs
Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.
~ Robert Breault
God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.
~ Robert Breault
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength.
~ Robert Southey
We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God .
~ Saint Augustine
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger.
~ Erica Jong
We can never know who or what we are until we know at least something of what God is.
~ A.W. Tozer