Wisdom Quotes

It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.

~ Luis Marques

When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.

~ Luis Marques

An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.

~ Luis Marques

You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you. ☥

~ Luis Marques

A long time ago I lived in Lisbon,' she said, in softly slurred Portuguese that made the name of the city Leesh-boa. 'But before that, meus neto, my tribe was in the mountains where there are only old things, like the trees and the rocks and the streams. There are truths to be learned from the old things -' She hesitated, and her brown, shrunken claw closed over Pete's hand. 'Do you know the truth, Pedrinho?'(Before I Wake...)

~ Henry Kuttner

This is beyond understanding. said the king. You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?And Merlin said quietly, Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.

~ John Steinbeck

Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion.

~ Criss Jami

The course of a life can be changed with some well timed, lovingly asked, honestly answered questions.

~ Lesley Sears

Have you had a 'relationship discussion' with God lately? Do you need to?

~ Lesley Sears

1 Corinthians 2:7 (CEB)We talk about God's Wisdom, which has been hidden as a secret. God determined this wisdom in advance, before time began for our glory.

~ Anonymous

We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.

~ Lesley Sears

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts, wisdom lies in their simplification.

~ Martin Henry Fischer

Proverbs 28:26Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe.

~ Anonymous

1 Corinthians 3:18-19Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become 'fools' so that you may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight.

~ Anonymous

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the Kingdom of God.

~ Anonymous

Jesus may give you eternal life, but until then, your ass going to stay right were it is until you do something about it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We can say that wisdom causes us to know, while understanding enables us to act.

~ Shane Wall

Exchanging life with Jesus Christ as taught by Jesus and His designated witnesses is not following a set of laws, rules, codes, principles, disciplines, scripts or cookbook formulas in our own power in an attempt to be like Jesus. Exchanging life with Jesus is not us giving imitation performances with our own acting abilities of what we think Jesus would be or do. Exchanging life with Jesus is Jesus giving repeat performances of His life in anyone who allows Jesus to do so. Jesus then lives out the supernatural performance of His Life in and through their lives.

~ John David Geib

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'The first command was clear and absolute, unalterable and unchanging. But there was a loophole in the second--wiggle room if we do not love ourselves. So at dinner Jesus tightened the loop, closed the hole:'A new command I give you, that you love one another as I have loved you.

~ Thomas R. Steagald

Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor will it ensure eternal treasures.

~ Mary E. Demuth

And there are many people, both Moslem and Christian, who have a good grasp of each others0 conceptions of surrender to God an other principles. But the widespread existence of bias, misinformation and lack of knowledge (…) militate against the effectiveness of dialogue, (…) by the most subtle and one of the most effective of instruments, the subconscious, almost the subliminal, introduction of hostility.

~ Idries Shah

I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in the crowded street of life. That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

As people used to say, “What the heart loves is the cure.” The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart carries devotion and love. When followed far enough, simple belief can transform into wisdom; raw passions can become a greater compassion that trusts what resides in one’s heart and even in the hearts of others. Until the heart opens and the eyes begin to see there is always the danger of blindness and narrowness and the tendency to hold onto narrow ways of being.

~ Michael Meade

Among wise men there is no place at all left for hatred. For no one except the greatest of fools would hate good men. And there is no reason at all for hating the bad. For just as weakness is a disease of the body, so wickedness is a disease of the mind. And if this is so, since we think of people who are sick in body as deserving sympathy rather than hatred, much more so do they deserve pity rather than blame who suffer an evil more severe than any physical illness.

~ Boethius

As for my own religious practice, I try to live my life pursuing what I call the Bodhisattva ideal. According to Buddhist thought, a Bodhisattva is someone on the path to Buddhahood wo dedicates themselves entirely to helping all other sentient beings towards release from suffering. The word Bodhisattva can best be understood by translating the Bodhi and Sattva separately: Bodhi means the understanding or wisdom of the ultimate nature of reality, and a Sattva is someone who is motivated by universal compassion. The Bodhissatva ideal is thus the aspiration to practise infinite compassion with infinite wisdom. releasing sentient beings from suffering.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

Your genuine happiness does not come from other people, activities or things, it comes from living a meaningful life - a life that is in alignment with your values and is beneficial.

~ John Bruna

No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path.

~ Laurence Overmire

Love is the state of being; it is not a personal feeling directed to a particular someone. Love is beyond romance and attraction.Love is when it doesn't matter when you get that person or not because you have met your own self through that person and that self will always be with you....within you.Love is not your loftiest fantasy you always thought will happen to you. Love is not wanting someone at any cost and cursing them if you do not get them. Love is who you are - your very essence felt and experienced by all that come into your vicinity

~ Rashmit Kalra

If only you could be yourself. they shouted. So, she did. You are not like me or anyone I have met! they screamed. So, she blended. You are so fake. they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Be Relentless in your Compassion for it is Your Power.

~ Odille Rault

If kindness isn't your strong suit, then you need to change clothes.

~ Donna Marie Timney

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

~ Gary Hopkins

Beware pride, it would have us seek revenge from those most deserving of our pity.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

What if today you gave yourself permission to be outrageously kind? What if you extended as much good will and kindness as you can possibly muster to every person you meet? And what if you did it with no thought of reward? I'm sure of one thing: it will be a day you will never regret.

~ Steve Goodier

I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! that's a lesson I will never forget

~ Pablo

Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share.

~ Debasish Mridha

Love, gratitude, compassion, and kindness are the sources of all enduring, pure happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

You know the world has gone mad when those who have enlightened, compassionate views and future visions, are accused of borderline insanity, ridiculed and criticised for thinking positively.

~ Mango Wodzak

Great compassion is the root of altruistic action, the object of amazement to the world;there is no greater source of help and happiness.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

~ Isabel Allende