Quotes about Wisdom

Faith simply is, and what the religious traditions of the world do is to give us guidance as to how to interpret our own experience in the light of what our ancestors have made of it over the centuries.

I have found therapy to be of limited usefulness, constrained in ways that religion is not, because it consistently falls short of mystery, by which I mean a profound simplicity that allows for paradox and poetry. In therapy I am likely to be searching for explanations, causes, and definitions, information that will help me change my behavior in healthful ways. But wisdom is the goal of spiritual seeking, and it is religion's true home.

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.

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 !

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

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.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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?

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

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.