Wisdom Quotes

"The greatest inheritance is a good conscience."

"It is not the things we do which need to be done first, but the disposition with which we do them."

"The devil is not troubled by poverty, but by humility."

"The soul that is most truly detached from self arrives at the greatest attachment to God."

"We are fools if we persist in carrying loads upon our own shoulders instead of laying them at Christ's feet."

"The spiritual life is not a matter of thinking much, but of loving and choosing rightly."

"The more a soul advances, the more it esteems simplicity."

"There is no such thing as an absolute bad experience, only lessons to be learned."

"True wisdom begins when we acknowledge the limits of human knowledge."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing that we know nothing without God's revelation."

"For I am sure that sweetness and devotion are matters not in our sensible feelings but in our deliberate choices."

"The soul of a righteous man is the seat of wisdom."

"To know oneself is to understand the mind of God."

"We must learn to see God in all things and all things in God."

"To seek God is to find oneself."

"God speaks to those who listen with their whole heart."

"The awakened soul recognizes God in every moment."

"The heart knows truths that the mind cannot comprehend."

"The soul that seeks God finds him everywhere."

"The greatest wisdom is knowing that God is good."

"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."

"Passive emotions arise from inadequate ideas; active emotions from adequate ones."

"The more we understand necessity, the more we transcend mere chance and fear."

"To be conscious of one's inadequacy is the first step toward greater adequacy."

"The body's limitations are the mind's greatest teachers."

"To know oneself truly is to know one's own power and its limits."

"A single thought of man is greater than the whole world."

"To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing."

"To understand the infinite, one must first understand the finite."

"The purification of the soul is the path to its perfection."