Quotes about Wisdom

Hope is more than wishing things will work out. It is resting in the God who holds all things in his wise and powerful hands.

We can experience peace in the face of the unknown. We can feel an inner well-being while living in the middle of mystery. Why? Because our peace of heart does not rest on how much we know, how much we have figured out, or how accurately we have been able to predict the future. No, our rest is in the person who holds our individual futures in his wise and gracious hands. We have peace because we know that he will complete the good things that he in grace has initiated in our lives.

Suffering is an evil that an all-wise, all-righteous, and all-loving God uses for eternal good.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship. To be wise, you first need to be rescued from you. You need to be given a new heart, one that is needy, humble, seeking, and ready to get from above what you can't find on this earth. And then you need to be brought into a relationship with the One who is wisdom.

If you seek satisfaction, satisfaction will escape your grasp. But if you seek God, rest in his presence and grace, and put your heart in his most capable hands, he will satisfy your heart as nothing else can. You were made for him. Your heart was designed to be controlled by worship of him. Your inner security is meant to come from rest in him. Your sense of well-being is intended to come from a reliance on his wisdom, power, and love.

Every leader is a package of God-given gifts and God-assigned limits. It is dangerous to focus on the one without humbly remembering the other.

We all need to be reminded again and again of what God has declared are the most important things in life.

You can't buy wisdom. You can't get it by hard work or lots of experience. No, wisdom is the result of rescue and relationship.

You are called to be an instrument of wisdom in your teenager's life. To do so, you must be gentle, humble, patient, and persevering.

One of the dark delusions of sin is that it causes us at points to buy into the insane thought that we might be smarter than God.

Love calls you to be silent when you want to speak, and to speak when you would like to be silent.

Knowledge is an accurate understanding of truth. Wisdom is understanding and living in light of how that truth applies to the situations and relationships of your daily life. Knowledge is an exercise of your brain. Wisdom is the commitment of your heart that leads to transformation of your life.