Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

God has given us enough wisdom to make improvements in our relations.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

Fighting is prescribed for you, and ye dislike it. But it is possible that ye dislike a thing which is good for you and that ye love a thing which is bad for you. But God knoweth, and ye know not.

I've always said that God will somehow enlighten me.

When I pray, I ask for guidance in my life to be the best person I can be, to learn what I need to learn, and to grow from what I learn.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

I know that whatever God does is for my betterment.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

Often God will send us what we need in a package we don't want. Why? To let us know He's God and we cannot second-guess Him. We cannot search for answers merely with our heads; we must seek Him and His provision with our hearts. Scripture cannot be interpreted from our limited human mental understanding. There must be a breath of the Spirit of God. He alone gives wise counsel and correct application.

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.

It’s not like your soul gets older. It gets wiser.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.