Quotes About Wisdom

Jaden felt their boredom, their tired eternity. Beyond that, she felt their dying essence. They were immortal—all-powerful beings—and yet they were powerless against the onslaught of ever-changing time. They were lost in a modern world, one they didn't have the energy to understand. And, in being lost, they were immobilized against it. Not even their judgments could assuage their exhausted wisdom of forever.

Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.

Embrace life for all its worth. Drink in God's wisdom, and savor all the experiences He offers you.

patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

God's questions are often designed not to extract answers but to provoke thought.

Jesus tells us in Luke 14:28 that before we undertake anything we should count the cost. Usually price is advertised, but cost is hidden.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

She was speaking about an aging of the soul, when a person's ka is a thousand years older than her body.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. She was right, old Marie Curie.

If it can be described, it can be understood. If it can be understood, it need not be feared.

Eigenlijk had hij het al veel Lichten en Donkers geweten, maar hij had het niet willen toegeven. Zonder Staart was niet-wolf.

The value of a good education has never left me.

Passive," he repeated the word with distaste. "Sometimes, Sarah, it's important not to jump into a swamp until you've properly assessed how many alligators there are.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

What would this have been, if it had more power to give?" "This may come as a surprise to you," he replied dryly, "But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct." "Which means you don't know." "Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know." - Kaylin & Tiamaris

Don't matter how old or young you are, how many times you get married, who you marry, or how saved you call yourself when you get married, you still gon

Psalm 127. "Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

Sometimes doing things God's way make you look and feel like a fool in the beginning. But He always have the last say, and His say is always good.

Some of us just be beggin' to learn the hard way.

Psalms 141:3: Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.