Quotes About Wisdom

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

Religion is a light in the fog.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.

Some friends give bad advice because they live a bad life.

Saying of the ProphetEnvyEnvy devours good deeds, as a fire devours fuel.

Every scripture, no matter how ancient, must go through rigorous human scrutiny.

While you were busy trying to prove God stands behind you, God was before me lighting the trail, so he could lead us both.

When the blind lead the blind the world is full of casualties.

Zen is a way of liberation concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous but what is.

Three things are good in little measure and evil in large: yeast salt and hesitation.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord in his wisdom didn't work that way. So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.

The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"

God is light.God is knowledge.

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.