Quotes About Wisdom

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

To pray well is the better half of study.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.