Quotes about Wisdom
We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.
— Donald Miller
God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.
— Donald Miller
Hell is truth known too late.
— JC Ryle
A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern." ~ J.C. Ryle
— JC Ryle
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
— JC Ryle
I entreat my readers, besides the Bible and the Articles, to read history.
— JC Ryle
Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.
— JC Ryle
Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years of age; wen He was found in the temple, He was "sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).
— JC Ryle
Humility and silence are beautiful graces in young people. Never be ashamed of being a learner: Jesus was one at twelve years; when He was found in the temple, He was "sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions" (Luke 2:46).
— JC Ryle
He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.
— JC Ryle
It is poor philosophy to say we will believe nothing unless we can understand everything!
— JC Ryle
The poorest Englishman who understands his Bible knows more about religion than the wisest philosophers of Greece and Rome.
— JC Ryle