Quotes about wisdom
wisdom destiny work-out
Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny....To work out our identity in God. Thomas Merton
wisdom sadness reality
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
wisdom may sometimes
God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.
wisdom ideas
Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.
wisdom men order
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)
wisdom book love-you
Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.
wisdom men succeed
A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.
wisdom people survival
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. If modern people were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of their absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be the possibility of their survival.
wisdom violence cease
Violence is not completely fatal until it ceases to disturb us.
wisdom destiny want
For each one of us, there is only one thing necessary: to fulfill our own destiny, according to God's will, to be what God wants us to be.
wisdom true-life life-is
We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.
wisdom passion order
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and to create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in order to cater to them with the products of our factories and printing presses and movie studios and all the rest.
wisdom men risk
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.
wisdom prayer inspired
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
wisdom emotional mind
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds
wisdom men infinite
Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. Thomas Carlyle
wisdom ideas mind
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
wisdom hard
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do. Tony Kushner
wisdom sweet tea
It's not the sugar that makes the tea sweet, but the stirring. Sam Levenson
wisdom men silence
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. Saadi
wisdom islamic thee
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
wisdom ignorance world
If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance.
wisdom men sea
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.
wisdom islamic men
A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane
wisdom horse islamic
Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.
wisdom islamic people
He taught people with his best way. He showed his beauty. He was all good so peace be on him and his family.
wisdom islamic men
Whoever gives advice to a heedless man is himself in need of advice.
wisdom islamic sea
In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.
wisdom islamic elephants
Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
wisdom fall islamic
If a gem falls into mud it is still valuable. If dust ascends to heaven, it remains valueless.
wisdom voice soul
There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul. Rumi
wisdom path-of-love madness
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
wisdom islamic journey
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.