Quotes about Wisdom
I wish he'd show you how wisdom looks from the inside, for true wisdom is mostly 'inside.
— Eugene Peterson
Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit-you choose.
— Eugene Peterson
I am GOD, your God, who teaches you how to live right and well. I show you what to do, where to go.
— Eugene Peterson
Those who parade the rhetoric of liberation but scorn the wisdom of service do not lead people into the glorious liberty of the children of God but into a cramped and covetous squalor.
— Eugene Peterson
Drinking from the beautiful chalice of knowledge is better than adorning oneself with gold and rare gems.
— Eugene Peterson
God-the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
— Eugene Peterson
Better to meet a grizzly robbed of her cubs than a fool hellbent on folly.
— Eugene Peterson
The Bible is basically and overall a narrative - an immense, sprawling, capacious narrative.
— Eugene Peterson
I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.
— Euripides
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
— Euripides
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
— Euripides
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
— Euripides