Quotes about Wisdom
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
- Mary Baker Eddy
To pray well is the better half of study.
- Martin Luther
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
- Oswald Chambers
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate prayer. I'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.
- Mark Batterson
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
- Martin Luther
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
- JI Packer
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
- Herman Melville
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
- Abraham Lincoln
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
- Oswald Chambers
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
- William Law