Quotes About Wisdom

Man skills may win you man points, but manhood virtues win the heart of God. Virtue is much harder to develop than skill, and it takes much longer. But the payoff is far greater! Don't

But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.

if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.

Half of spiritual growth is learning what we don't know. The other half is unlearning what we do know.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.

Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. "The farther backward you can look," said Winston Churchill, "the farther forward you can see."3

Some things cannot be perceived with the five senses; they can only be conceived by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be deduced via deductive reasoning; they can only be imagined by the Holy Spirit. Some things cannot be learned by logic; they can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit.

truth is, part of me is every age. I'm a three-year-old, I'm a five-year-old, I'm a thirty-seven-year-old, I'm a fifty-year-old. I've been through all of them, and I know what it's like. I delight in being a child when it's appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it's appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.23

What do you do when God's logic doesn't line up with yours? When the will of God doesn't add up? When you think you know better or know more than God?

Yes, the Bible is our sword. It's our best offense, our best defense. But when we misinterpret the truth, we're abusing the Bible.

True knowledge should not produce pride; it should produce humility...Because the more you know, the more you know how much you don't know.

we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

Luke 2:52: May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

An untamed tongue is far more dangerous than an untrained sword.

It was like being some not quite all-knowing, not quite all-seeing force, hamstrung by the missing pieces of the jigsaw. Omnipotent and impotent. Like being God with Alzheimer's.

The ancient wisdom of the masters says that even a mighty oak was once a nut like you.

In boardrooms and bedchambers, in lecture halls and marketplaces, God is hardly seen as a player let alone the author, the one who holds in His hand each king's heart and directs it like a watercourse (Proverbs

I don't have any more wisdom in our courage for this journey than you do. Maybe less. But if you could use a traveling companion, I would come along. I would be only like one of those two men on the road to Emmaus, mostly confused myself, with a slow heart that burned within. Maybe together we would be able to discern Christ on the road beside us.

Google will provide you with a thousand answers. A library will provide you with the correct answer.

He sheathed the sword and hung it back on the wall. "I expect he is dead now." He returned to his bunk. "I have learned that holding on to anger is like eating poison in the absurd expectation that your enemy will vomit blood. Anger destroys you—no other. You must not let that happen.

The things we think we know are just stories we have been told. They are not necessarily true.

Thirty-four is not even old!

What really matters is not the pencil but the brain of the person holding it.