Quotes About Wisdom

Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

We ignorant of ourselves beg often our own harms which the wise powers deny us for our good.

If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!

The instant you take the lead in the tug-of-war with your ego, enlightenment becomes your state of being.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment

For we know not what we should pray for.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.

Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Call on God but row away from the rocks.

Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.