Do not seek to plunge into the sea of knowledge all at once, but go there by way of the many streams that flow into it, since it is wiser to reach the more difficult things by way of the less difficult… I charge you to be slow to speak and slow to frequent places where men talk. Embrace cleanness of conscience. Be constant in prayer. Love to dwell in your inner room if you would penetrate into the inner room of your Beloved. Be courteous to everyone. Do not look too deeply into the deeds of others. Do not be overly familiar with anyone, for too great a familiarity breeds contempt and offers an occasion for being distracted from study. Do not in any way wish to pry into the words and deeds of worldly people. Flee from useless conversations. Do not forget to imitate the ways of the saints and holy people. Do not feel obligated to listen to what everyone says, but commit to memory anything good that you might hear others say… By these steps you will bring forth useful branches and fruits in the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth while life is in you. If you walk this way, you may obtain all that you desire.
Thomas Aquinas

Wisdom, the wisdom of God, is not something that is acquired by man, but something that is bestowed by God upon his elect. It is a divine endownment and not a human acquisition.
Spiros Zodhiates

Let me learn by paradox that the way down is up, that to be low is to be high…that to have nothing is to possess all, that to bear the cross is to wear the crown…that the valley is the place of vision.
The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers

Men take more pains to mask than mend.
Benjamin Franklin

There is not greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
Leo Tolstoy

Get your friends to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely.  What a blessing such an irritating citric will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A man stopped every morning to set his watch by the clock on the local bank.  One day the banker stepped outside to ask him why.  “Well,” said the man, “I am the man who sounds the noon siren and I want to be sure it is the correct time.”  “That’s strange,” said the banker, “I set this clock by that siren each day.”
Unknown

In obedience to discernment, more discernment will come. We need to be attentive and alert in order to hear and understand God’s call and then act, knowing that God blesses even our mistakes.
Unknown

When I was young, I was sure of everything.  In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before.  At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.
John Wesley

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
Winston Churchill

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth is a supremely successful day.
Vernon Howard

Truth is the most powerful force on earth because it cannot be changed. Mike Murdock

Truth may walk through the world unarmed.
Bedouin

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
Corrie ten Boom

When I was young, I was sure of everything.  In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before.  At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.
John Wesley

Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves are the most important.
Jonathan Edwards

The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.
Leonard Cohen

Every man is a fool for at least five minutes every day.  Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.
Elbert Hubbard

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
C. H. Spurgeon

A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone.
Jonathan Swift 

Almost all men are affected with the disease of desiring to obtain useless knowledge.
John Calvin 

One can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth.  Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth.  If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms.
Simone Weil

Knowledge is limitless.  Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.
Leo Tolstoy 

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Unknown

We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened.
Unknown

Men tell you the facts, but God will tell you the truth!
Unknown

When a true thought enters any man’s mind, be he saint or sinner, it must of necessity be God’s thought, for God is the origin of all true thoughts and things.  That is why many real truths are spoken and written by persons other than Christians.
A. W. Tozer

There is only one theology, but there are many theologians.
Athenagoras I

Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
William James

I am greater than the stars for I know that they are up there and they do not know that I am down here.
William Temple

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr