Quotes about Wisdom
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.
— Lysa TerKeurst
His name is fool and folly goes with him everywhere he goes" (1 Samuel 25:25, paraphrased).
— Lysa TerKeurst
Grace doesn't give me a free pass to act out how I feel, with no regard to His commands. Rather, His grace gives me consolation in the moment, with a challenge to learn from this situation and become more mature in the future.
— Lysa TerKeurst
What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.
— Lysa TerKeurst
What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see. Bob
— Lysa TerKeurst
If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.
— Lysa TerKeurst
had the wrong notion that to be a Christian requires that we believe the best no matter what. That it's unkind to draw boundaries. That it's noble and commendable to stay in a relationship no matter what. I no longer believe that.
— Lysa TerKeurst
People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along. Lord, let me end this the right way.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Find a friend who can speak rationality into your irrational impulses. A friend who will hold you accountable, speak the truth in love, and pray for you.
— Lysa TerKeurst