Wisdom Quotes

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view."

"The most reliable way to predict the future is to understand the present."

"Understanding the moment is the key to affecting its outcome."

"Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice."

"Knowledge puffs up while love builds up."

"Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

"So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh."

"Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone."

"Wealth and beauty fade away, but a good name endures forever."

"The disease of ego cannot be cured by any doctor."

"Greed has blinded the eyes of the wise."

"The wise person builds bridges; the fool builds walls."

"Where humility dwells, pride cannot enter."

"The mind is your kingdom; guard it well."

"The human heart is a factory of idols; we are constantly prone to worship false things."

"We must examine ourselves daily to ensure we are not living in hypocrisy."

"Vanity and pride are the roots from which all other sins grow."

"Human nature is so corrupt that we cannot trust our own judgments without divine guidance."

"The fear and hatred of sin should be as great as the love of righteousness."

"Humility before God is incompatible with pride in one's own accomplishments."

"Covetousness of another's goods reveals a fundamental disorder in the human heart."

"The Christian must maintain constant vigilance against spiritual pride and self-deception."

"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea, tossed back and forth by waves of endless desires."

"I could not have heard the things I have heard and seen the things I have seen without being broken inside."

"As the economy of the body is ordered, so I believe the spiritual economy is also ordered."

"The greatest of follies is to sacrifice the permanent to the temporary."

"The flesh is the greatest teacher of the spiritual."

"The wise one fashions victory through their own mind."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"The wise learn from others; the foolish repeat their own mistakes."