 If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees! Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge. Author: Vance Havner |
| Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it. Author: Cornelius Plantinga |
| There is nothing more foolish than an act of wickedness; there is no wisdom equal to that of obeying God. Author: Albert Barnes |
| People only have true understanding (wisdom) when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is to be the object of our devotion, our adoration, and our reverence (Psalm 111:6). Author: R.C. Sproul
Source: The Purpose of God, An Exposition of Ephesians, p. 38. |
| Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Author: Charles Spurgeon |
| No mind, no wisdom--temporary mind, temporary wisdom--eternal mind, eternal wisdom. Author: Adoniram Judson |
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| Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist! Author: R. Kent Hughes
Source: Disciplines of a Godly Man, p. 65-66. |
| "Wise" speaks not of one who merely knows some fact, but of one who is skilled in the art of godly living. He submits to Scripture and knows how to apply it to his circumstances. Author: John MacArthur
Source: Our Sufficiency in Christ |
| We do have a responsibility to make wise decisions or to discover the will of God, whichever term we may prefer to use. But God's plan for us is not contingent upon our decisions. God's plan is not contingent at all. God's plan is sovereign. It includes our foolish decisions as well as our wise ones. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: Trusting God, 1988, p. 170. |
| Wisdom [is] an understanding and application of the moral principles of God. Author: Jerry Bridges
Source: The Practice of Godliness, p. 89. |
| In the spiritual world ... he will be wise who courts acquaintance with the most ordinary and transparent facts of Nature; and in laying the foundations for a religious life he will make no unworthy beginning who carries with him an impressive sense of so obvious a truth as that without Environment there can be no life. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: Natural Law, Environment, p. 264. |
