Quotes about Wisdom

To be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner. I am not a teacher, only a fellow student.

The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young people a vision.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

A Warrior knows that his best teachers are the people whom he shares the battlefield.

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

A few hours spent reading a book is better than a lifetime of ignorance.

Learn to cease from your own wisdom as well as your own goodness; draw near in poverty of spirit to let the Holy One show you how utterly above human knowledge or human power is the holiness He demands; to the soul that ceases from self, and has no confidence in the flesh, He will show and give the holiness He calls us to.

There can be no good but what God works; to wait upon God, and have the heart filled with faith in His working, and in that faith to pray for His mighty power to come down, is our only wisdom. Oh for the eyes of our heart to be opened to see God working in ourselves and in others, and to see how blessed it is to worship and just to wait for His salvation!

Lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.

The Spirit did everything on the Day of Pentecost and afterwards. It was the Spirit who gave the boldness, the wisdom, the message, and the converting power.

Never think of the riches of wisdom and knowledge hidden in Jesus as treasures without a key, or of your way as a path without a light. Jesus, your wisdom, is guiding you in the right way, even when you do not see it.