Quotes about Wisdom

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this ' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when. Put

What Socrates called the "unexamined life" that is "not worth living" now seems to be the life more people have slipped into than ever before.

What we also need is a constructive overarching vision of Christian engagement in today's advanced modern world, one that is shaped by faith in God and a Christian perspective rather than by current wisdom, and one that can inspire Christians to move out with courage to confront the best and worst that we may encounter.

The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would have thought that there could be so many things that I can do without?"4

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

There is a time for stories, and there is a time for rational arguments, and the skill we need lies in knowing which to use, and when.