And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works which we have wrought in holiness of heart; but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.
We often despise what is most useful to us.
How often it is that a small action becomes great by its intention. And how often it is that a great action becomes small by its intention.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.
You have to perform to the best of your ability, and if you have to argue stringently, if you have to persist and to state your case strongly, then you do it.
To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism.
The banks themselves were doing business on capitals three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital. . . is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing the wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
The growth of property and the desire for its transmission to children was, in reality, the moving power which brought in monogamy to insure legitimate heirs, and to limit their number to the actual progeny of the married pair.
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
Beware of Destination Addiction. . . a preoccupation with the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job and with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Power naturally and necessarily follows property.
To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. . . . Without any shadow of doubt, amidst this vertigo of shows and politics, I settle myself ever the firmer in the creed, that we should not postpone and refer and wish, but do broad justice where we are, by whomsoever we deal with, accepting our actual companions and circumstances, however humble or odious, as the mystic officials to whom the universe has delegated its whole pleasure for us.
I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.
If someone wants to know what position he enjoys in the eyes of God, he has only to look at what place he gives to God (in his heart and life)