Divine Wisdom Quotes - Page 2

• Would that men might come at last to see that it is quite impossible to reach the thicket of the riches and wisdom of God except by first entering the thicket of much suffering, in such a way that the soul finds there its consolation and desire. The soul that longs for divine wisdom chooses first, and in truth, to enter the thicket of the cross.

  John of the Cross

  Men, Soul, Suffering

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• Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Theology, Ingenuity, Humans

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• In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

  Maimonides

  Kindness, Individual, Goodness

  Moses Maimonides (2012). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.269, Courier Corporation

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• The yearning for the common good comes from the refusal to accept that perhaps Americans have very little in common apart from the elements of a sometimes successful civil religion based around a sentimental, indeed sometimes teary-eyed, attachment to the constitution and a belief in the quasi-divine wisdom of the founding fathers.

  Simon Critchley

  Father, Successful, Attachment

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• All religions have some truth in them, but none has the whole truth; all are created in time and finally decline and perish. Mahomed himself never pretended that the Koran was the last message of God and there would be no other. God and Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Lasts, Messages, Would Be

  Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose (1993). “The Integral Yoga: Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice”, p.352, Lotus Press

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• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  Maimonides

  Self, Mind, Finals

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.447, Aeterna Press

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• In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction.

  Maimonides

  Divine, Destruction, Genesis

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.436, Aeterna Press

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• A Christian receives divine wisdom in three ways: by the commandments, teachings, and faith. The commandments free the mind from passions. Teachings lead it to true knowledge of nature. Faith leads to the contemplation of the Holy Trinity.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

  Richard Whately

  Men, Interesting, Agents

  Richard Whately (1855). “Introductory lectures on political-economy, delivered at Oxford, in Easter term MDCCCXXXI. With remarks on tithes and on poor-laws and on penal colonies”, p.64

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• How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom as we walk our paths in these complex and difficult times. The solid assurance we carry in our hearts, the conviction that God will make his will known to his children through his recognized servant is the real basis of our faith and activity. We either have a prophet or we have nothing: and having a prophet, we have everything

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Real, Heart

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• Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Fall, Trying, Quality

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• The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Greatness, Soul, Clemency

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