Quotes About Wisdom

No one should think he is too smart or too safe to avoid consequences of a lack of character.

rationality has less to do with following scholarly procedures and more to do with becoming a saint.

Life is full of surprises, embrace them and learn from them. They will make you stronger.

Erwachsene! Was für ein trauriger Haufen. Verstehen nichts. Kein Wunder, dass es auf der Welt die ganze Zeit drunter und drüber geht.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I always thought education was learning to think for yourself

I am a man of the ancient earth For I have known the desert at dawn.

There is no wisdom without love.

If what we want is God's justice, coming to sort things out, we will do better to get entirely out of the way and let God do his own work, rather than supposing our burst of anger (which will most likely have all sorts of nasty bits to it, such as wounded pride, malice and envy) will somehow help God do what needs to be done.

The day of death is better than the day of birth, a live dog is better than a dead lion, and the grave is better than poverty.

We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and grows up. Perhaps it's a measure of our maturity when parts of Scripture that we found odd or even repellent suddenly come up in a new light. Our sense is overtaken by a sense of the whole thing, wide, multicolored, and unspeakably powerful.

Virtue is what happens when habitual choices have been wise.

The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle, but so that God's power and wisdom may work in us, through us, and out into the world that still regards Jesus's crucifixion as weakness and folly.

God made humans to reflect his glory, his love, his wisdom into the world, and in the new creation God will not revoke this vocation. He will gloriously fulfill it. We will become more human, not less.

The aim, as in all theological and biblical exploration, is not to replace love with knowledge. Rather, it is to keep love focused upon its true object. We

What we hope for includes the wise human leadership and initiative which will, like that of Joseph in Egypt, bring about fresh and healing policies and actions

There are five language-sets in particular which they employed for this purpose. Briefly, they are as follows: Wisdom, Torah, Spirit, Word and Shekinah

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

Transcending "Revelation" All this alerts us to the fact that scripture is more than simply

God made humans for a purpose: not simply for themselves, not simply so that they could be in relationship with him, but so that through them, as his image-bearers, he could bring his wise, glad, fruitful order to the world.

But, granted that learning without love is sterile and dry, enthusiasm without learning can easily become blind arrogance.

How would you describe a mature person?

Like many other Jews of his day, Saul of Tarsus, thinking as a Jew while taking on board the theories of the wider world, would reflect on the similarity and dissimilarity between the wisdom of the world and the wisdom of Israel.

The purpose of an open mind, [Chesterton] said, is like the purpose of an open mouth: that it might be shut again on something solid. Yes, we must be free to ask questions. But when we hear a good answer we must be prepared to recognize it as such, and not be so keen on keeping all the questions open that we shy away from an answer because we so like having an open mind. That is the way to intellectual, as well as spiritual, starvation.