Quotes about Wisdom
The resolution of good men depends more on the grace of God than on their own wisdom, and they put their whole trust in Him in all their undertakings. Man proposes, but God disposes, and man's destiny is not in his own hands.
— Thomas a Kempis
A child in a Christian school class asked her teacher, "How could anybody create everything in six days from nothing?" Another very discerning young student blurted out, "But God is not just anybody !
— Ken Ham
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— CS Lewis
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
— CS Lewis
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
— CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
— CS Lewis
I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— CS Lewis
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
— CS Lewis
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
— CS Lewis
Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
— Calvin Coolidge
We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
— Calvin Coolidge
IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.
— Calvin Coolidge