Wisdom is the power to see and the inclination to choose the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty... acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
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Making Life Work: Putting God's Wisdom Into Action By Bill Hybels The world overflows with information, data and knowledge. But there is precious little wisdom. Yet wisdom is what we most desperately need when we face a problem at work or at home, with friends, or in our own lives. To answer life's questions we want sound advice from someone we respect, someone who knows how to succeed and how to deal with failure, who sees clearly the consequences of different courses of action. That's what Bill Hybels found in the book of Proverbs, and that's what he offers us. Here is advice that has been tested for centuries and found true about how to put God's wisdom into action. If it seems as though there's nothing less common than common sense, this book is for you. Includes questions for reflection and discussion. |
As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.
Theodore Epp
Biography and Devotionals
Wisdom is knowledge applied. Head knowledge is useless on the battlefield. Knowledge stamped on the heart makes one wise.
Beth Moore
Wisdom in scripture is, broadly speaking, the knowledge of God's world and the knack of fitting oneself into it.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
Wisdom is, and starts with, the humility to accept the fact that you don't have all the right answers, and the courage to learn to ask the right questions.
Anonymous
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.
Johannes Tauler
Biography
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Living What You Believe: Wisdom from the Book of James By Kenneth Boa & William M. Kruidenier The journey to spiritual maturity is filled with obstacles that can shipwreck one's faith. Where does one find the wisdom to overcome those obstacles while remaining faithful to what he believes? Early believers were guided by the wisdom in the book of James-wisdom that enabled them to live out their faith in the toughest of circumstances. This study on the book of James offers readers a fresh look at that wisdom. Packed with insights, vignettes, and short readings called "side trips", this GUIDE-BOOK helps readers understand the journey to spiritual maturity. Readers will discover some of the richest, most practical- and at times, controversial-stops on the path to godly wisdom, and they'll learn the skills necessary to overcome life's most challenging obstacles and live out what they believe. |
There is a slumbering inclination toward desire, which is both sudden and fierce. With irresistible power, desire seizes mastery... a secret, smoldering fire is kindled... at this moment God is quite unreal to us...the powers of clear discrimination and of decision are taken from us... the Bible teaches us in times of temptation... there is one command: Flee! Get away from it... for every struggle against lust in one's own strength is doomed to failure.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
Thomas Watson
Online Works and Biography
I wonder if people who asked for God to intervene in our world, really know what they are asking. Will they want to be there when God really does intervene?
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
It is excellent to seek advice about everything, but only from those with experience. It is dangerous to ask questions of the inexperienced, because they do not possess discrimination. Discrimination knows when the time is ripe, what means to employ, the inner state of the questioner, what level he has reached, his strength, his degree of spiritual knowledge and his intention, as well as God's purpose and the meaning of Holy Scripture.
Peter of Damaskos
Zeal without knowledge is like a mettled horse without eyes, or like a sword in a madman's hand; and there is no knowledge where there is not the word: for if they reject the word of the Lord, and act not by that, 'What wisdom is in them?' saith the prophet (Jer 8:9; Isa 8:20).
John Bunyan
Online Library
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