Quotes About Wisdom

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

The politician's prayer is: May my words be ever soft and low, for I may have to eat them.

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray."

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

Without loving and caring for others, most of us stand little chance of communing with God/the Divine Wisdom, no matter how many years we may spend in silent prayer.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.