Pastoral Resources

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.