What They Said

“The proud man conceives himself wise enough. He asks no counsel, and thus proves his want of wisdom.  But with the modest, well-advised, there is the wisdom that is from above, “which is first pure, then peaceable” (Jam 3:17, with 3:14- 16).”

Charles Bridges

“If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.”

Ulrich Zwingli

“Truly wise men are never above asking questions, because they are wise men.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Truth is truth, and error, error, and that which is unlawful is unlawful, whether men think so or not. God has put an eternal difference between light and darkness, good and ill, which no creature's conceit can alter; and therefore no man's judgment is the measure of things further than it agrees to truth stamped upon things themselves by God.“

Richard Sibbes

(The Bruised Reed-pg 84)

“Faith in the self-attesting Christ of Scripture is the beginning, not the end result of wisdom.”

Greg Bahnsen

COME, O my soul, in sacred lays, 

Attempt thy great Creator's praise: 

But O what tongue can speak his fame? 

What mortal verse can reach the theme!

Enthroned amid the radiant spheres, 

He glory like a garment wears;

To form a robe of light divine,

Ten thousand suns around him shine.

In all our Maker's grand designs, 

Omnipotence, with wisdom, shines;

His works, through all this wondrous frame,
Declare the glory of his name. 

Raised on devotion's lofty wing,
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing;
And let his praise employ thy tongue,
Till listening worlds shall join the song. 

Thomas Blacklock

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge.  To know is not to be wise.  Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.  There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool.  But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

Charles Spurgeon