Quotes About Wisdom

It is not in heaven, that you should need to ask, ëWho will ascend into heaven to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?í

And it is not beyond the sea, that you should need to ask, ëWho will cross the sea to get it for us and proclaim it, that we may obey it?í

But the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may obey it.

See, I have set before you today life and goodness, as well as death and disaster.

When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel,

he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ëYou shall not cross the Jordan.í

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you?

Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.

Israel is a nation devoid of counsel, with no understanding among them.

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?

he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I testify among you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.

For they are not idle words to you, because they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”

Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze, and may your strength match your days.”

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.

This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.

“Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ëWhat is the meaning of these stones?í