Quotes about Wisdom
Everything in Scripture has the force of law. What it teaches we are to believe; what it commands, we are to do. We should take its wisdom to heart, imitate its heroes, laugh at its jokes, trust its promises, and sing its songs.
— John Frame
It does not require many words to speak the truth. Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal. Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.
— John Hagee
Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.
— John Henry Newman
Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.
— John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
— John Keats
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.
— John Lennon
To cut ourselves off from the past is to rob ourselves from understanding the present.
— John Frame
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but mercies all the same. God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
— Elisabeth Elliot
My patients taught me not how to die, but how to live.
— Elisabeth Kubler Ross