Quotes about Wisdom

Spiritual direction as Henri understood it can be defined as a relationship initiated by a spiritual seeker who finds a mature person of faith willing to pray and respond with wisdom and understanding to his or her questions about how to live spiritually in a world of ambiguity and distraction.

God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Read not the Times. Read the Eternities. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts.

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.