Wisdom

Wisdom: Wisdom is God’s gift, to be kept pure from all contamination. Its possession lays upon everyone on whom it is bestowed a peculiar obligation to glorify God by blessing His fellow men…

Almighty God, we acknowledge thee to be the only wise God, the source of all wisdom, and our Father-God…

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

And there were two women in the city, who disputed before him about one child, each claiming to be its mother. One woman said, “This is my son.” The other woman said, “No, he is mine!”…

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” Alfred Lord Tennyson

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.”

No one was more affected than his own son, Henry…

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate.

A case manager at our mental-health facility sought a reference for a patient who was looking for a job. “I’ll vouch for him,” offered another patient. “We were roommates in prison.” –Jeanne Muller, Reader’s Digest, March 2009.

On Sunday, the new young pastor arrived at church and found only an old farmer had shown up…

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long walk from the stream to the master’s house; the cracked pot arrived only half full…

Christians are living witnesses who should “walk worthy” of the calling they have received…

An old man, walking along the beach one dawn, noticed a young man picking up starfish and flinging them into the ocean. The boy explained he was afraid the stranded starfish would die if left until the morning sun…

Some years ago, theologian Norman Geisler wrote a candid article in which he said: “I have a confession to make…

Edward Kimball was determined to win his Sunday school class to Christ. One of the boys, a teenager named Dwight Moody, tended to fall asleep on Sundays, but Kimball, undeterred, set out to reach him at work…

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. —Attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Alexander Grigolia had immigrated to America from Soviet Georgia, learned English, earned three doctoral degrees, and become a successful professor at the University of Pennsylvania. But despite his freedom and achievements, he had a misery in his heart that he couldn’t dislodge…

In his book What in the World is God Doing? Dr. Ted Engstrom relates a story told him by a veteran Korean Christian. In the early 1880s three Korean workmen, laboring in China, heard the Gospel and embraced the Lord Jesus…

Crotchety old Alice was a terror to neighborhood children, stray dogs, and delivery boys. Her face was sour and surly, and she waved her garden trowels and hedge-clippers like weapons in the faces of visitors…

Edward Kimball was determined to win his Sunday school class to Christ. One of the boys, a teenager named Dwight Moody, tended to fall asleep on Sundays, but Kimball, undeterred, set out to reach him at work…

According to a legend, when Jesus returned to heaven following his death on the cross and resurrection from the tomb, the angels gathered in amazement. They gazed at the wounds in his hands and feet, and shuddered to recall his suffering…

One day the writer was reading a Jeweler’s Trade Journal, The Keystone. In it he found the best illustration he has ever been able to find to bring out this idea…

Alexander Grigolia had immigrated to America from Soviet Georgia, learned English, earned three doctoral degrees, and become a successful professor at the University of Pennsylvania. But despite his freedom and achievements, he had a misery in his heart that he couldn’t dislodge…

Some years ago, theologian Norman Geisler wrote a candid article in which he said: “I have a confession to make…

Celecca Cutts of Nashville, while a nineteen-year-old nursing student in Florida, remembers sitting quietly in a church service. Her minister asked, “Will those of you who are willing to do anything necessary to lead others to Christ please raise your hands?”…

Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. -Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac for 1735 A wise man hears one word and understands two. –Jewish proverb From the error of others a wise man corrects his…

Wisdom has two parts: 1) Having a lot to say. 2) Not saying it.

I’ve learned.... that a kindness done is never lost. It may take a while, but like a suitcase on a luggage carousel, it will return again. I’ve learned.... that when you’re in love, it shows…

Although I have shared Christ personally with many thousands of people through the years, I am a rather reserved person and I do not always find it easy to witness…

Pastor Wallace Hostetter of Rochester, Michigan, went for a haircut one day. His barber was a young Muslim woman…

Three cowboys had been riding the range since early in the morning. One of them was a member of the Navajo Nation. Being busy with herding stray cattle all day, there had been no time for the three of them to eat…

At the head of all pleasures which offer themselves to the man of education may confidently be placed that derived from books, which perhaps no other can stand in competition with…

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.

A good deal of trouble has been caused in the world by too much intelligence and too little wisdom.

According to Mark Mittelberg, director of evangelism at Willow Creek Com­ munity Church of suburban Chicago, “God knew what he was doing when he made you…

At being requested to sing at a large gathering in London, hymnist Frances Ridley Havergal selected a sacred song. Later a young man, a stranger to Frances, opened conversation with her…

A pastor says: “I was visiting in a home where there were seven children. The oldest was a boy of around twelve. The fourth from him was also a boy…

Vance Havner once noted that many college professors are searching for wisdom while the janitors that clean their offices may have discovered it years ago…

University president and “management guru” Warren Bennis spent several years researching a book on leadership. He traveled around the country spending time with ninety of the most effective and successful leaders in the nation-sixty from corporations and thirty from the public sector…

I’m just a nobody telling everybody about somebody who can save anybody.-elevator

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend’s forehead.

Wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what you know.

Evangelism is one beggar telling another beggar where he found bread. -D. T Niles3

During a visit to the mental asylum a visitor asked the Director, “How do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized?”…