Quotes about Wisdom

It cannot be stressed too much that the permanent address at which the word of God may be found is the Bible.

Knowledge is a friend of faith, essential to faith and to our relationship with God in the spiritual life.

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

It is setting aside our own ideas as supreme and our own will as ultimate, freeing us from the burden of having our own way and of being all-wise in our own eyes.

Bluntly, to serve God well we must think straight; and crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. And when the crooked thinking gets elevated into group orthodoxy, whether religious or secular, there is always, quite literally, "hell to pay." That is, hell will take its portion, as it has repeatedly done in the horrors of world history.

If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that he knew how to live.

People perish for lack of knowledge, because only knowledge permits assured access to reality; and reality does not adjust itself to accommodate our false beliefs, errors, or hesitations in action. Life demands a steady hand for good, and only knowledge supplies this. This is as true in the spiritual life as elsewhere.

Notice there are three things about the tree that caught Eve's attention. It was (1) good for food, (2) pleasant to the eyes, and (3) desirable to make one wise.

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

Seek not to speak, but that you might have something to say.

"Knowledge" in biblical language never refers to what we today call "head knowledge," but always to experiential involvement with what is known—to actual engagement with it.