Quotes about Wisdom

Abruptly Jesus broke into prayer: "Thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth. You've concealed your ways from sophisticates and know-it-alls, but spelled them out clearly to ordinary people. Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work.

People who are forever breaking the rules, trying other roads, attempting to create their own system of values and truth from scratch, spend most of their time calling up someone to get them out of trouble and help repair the damage, and then ask the silly question "What went wrong?" As H. H. Farmer said, "If you go against the grain of the universe you get splinters.

But there is an older wisdom that puts it differently: by changing our behavior we can change our feelings.

Youth may be admired for vigor, but gray hair gives prestige to old age.

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.

Listen carefully to what I am saying—and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes." NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

For we're newcomers at this, with a lot to learn, and not too long to learn it.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

Don't curse God; and don't damn your leaders.

Psalm 127 shows a way to work that is neither sheer activity nor pure passivity. It doesn't glorify work as such, and it doesn't condemn work as such. It doesn't say, "God has a great work for you to do; go and do it." Nor does it say, "God has done everything; go fishing." If we want simple solutions in regard to work, we can become workaholics or dropouts. If we want to experience the fullness of work, we will do better to study Psalm 127.

Skilled living gets its start in the Fear-of-GOD, insight into life from knowing a Holy God.