A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
—Charles Dickens
And if your love of God is in any wise decayed, so is also your love of your neighbour. You are then hurt in the very life and spirit of your religion! If you lose love, you lose all.
—John Wesley
Herein appears the depth of the wisdom of God, in his adorable providence; in governing men, so as not to destroy either their understanding, will, or liberty.
—John Wesley
Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?
—John Wesley
O God, how unsearchable are thy judgments or counsels! Too deep to be fathomed by our reason: and thy ways of executing those counsels not to be traced by our wisdom!
—John Wesley
It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.
—Amy Carmichael
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and all His wisdom, and power, and faithfulness are engaged on thy side.
—John Wesley
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
—Mark Twain
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
—Cicero
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
—Cicero
The wise Christian will watch for opportunities to do good, to speak the life-bringing word to sinners, to pray the rescuing prayer of intercession.
—AW Tozer
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
—Albert Einstein
Lord, if it be most for thy glory, let me proceed in it; but if thou seest that it will in any wise hinder my usefulness in thy cause, oh prevent my proceeding…all I want, respecting this world, is such circumstances as may best capacitate me to do service for God in the world.
—David Brainerd
Oh that we could depend more upon the living God, and less upon our own wisdom and strength!
—David Brainerd
To complete the happiness of the redeemed; Christ is not only made of God unto them wisdom and righteousness, the one curing our ignorance, the other our guilt; but he is made sanctification also, to relieve us against the dominion and pollutions of our corruptions.
—John Flavel
For never was any wound healed by a prepared, but unapplied plaster. Nor was it ever known, that a poor deceived, condemned sinner, was actually delivered out of that woeful state, until of God, Christ was made unto him, wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption.
—John Flavel
There is more wisdom in the Bible than there is in all the other literature of the ages. The one who studies the Bible will know more of real wisdom than the man who reads every other book and neglects his Bible.
—R. A. Torrey
I have found that the man who believes in the Bible always comes out ahead in the long run, and that the man who is too wise and too advanced to believe the Word of God come out behind, in the long run, every time.
—R. A. Torrey
Sometimes it’s absolutely worth our time to respond to comments and sometimes it’s an absolute waste of time. May God give us the wisdom to know the difference.
“You cannot fail to be wise if you commune with Incarnate Wisdom.”
The wise warrior avoids the battle.
—Sun Tzu
Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.
—Thomas Edison
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
—Blaise Pascal
Those who love wisdom must investigate many things.
—Heraclitus
“If your proud flesh should rebel, pray it down; for, rest assured that, if you were so selfish as only to wish to do that which would promote your own happiness, it would be the path of wisdom to be obedient to your Lord and Master.”
– Charles Spurgeon
But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.
—Nikolai Gogol
If all wisdom be laid up in him, and by an interest in him only to be attained, – if all things beside him and without him that lay claim thereto are folly and vanity, – let them that would be wise learn where to repose their souls.
—John Owen
Scarcely have any *wise* men been brought to destruction, but it hath evidently been through their own *folly*; neither hath the wisest counsel of most been one jot better than madness.
—John Owen
Were not men so wise, the world, perhaps, would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness.
—John Owen
Give GOD your hearts, your whole hearts; let JESUS CHRIST’s be your whole wisdom, your whole righteousness; and then he will be your whole sanctification and eternal redemption.
—George Whitefield