Quotes about Wisdom

When the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won't draw attention to himself, but will make sense of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said. He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you.

you guys are living life for yourselves. You're leaving God totally out of it, and as a result things can get pretty messed up.

Now she wanted it back. A Scripture she'd tried to live by as a teen came to her, and surprised she could even remember it, she said it aloud. "Trust the Lord with your whole heart, don't depend on your own knowledge and experience, include God in all you do, and he will direct you through life.

This is what we're going to do. I asked God for wisdom, and this is the answer I got.

No knowledge is ever wasted. To quote the apostle Paul: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28).

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

I came to understand that very day that I was always angry because I was selfish. I felt that someone was always infringing on my rights, getting in my space, messing with my things, disregarding my positions, and so on, which offended me, leading to inappropriate behavior. Through wisdom provided by God it dawned on me that I should step outside of the center of the circle so that everything wasn't always about me.

As individuals, we can educate ourselves and our children, cultivate the art of compromise, pray for wisdom, and hold our representatives accountable. Each of us can positively affect our nation just by making ourselves (and those in our spheres of influence ) aware of the fact that we are being used as pawns by those who try to tell us what we should think as opposed to using our own common sense.

Those who love to talk will experience the consequences, for the tongue can kill or nourish life. PROVERBS 18:21

The question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it gains over time, and grows in wisdom. Those nations who learn from their mistakes will become wise, while those who repeat the same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different result, are foolish.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.