Lew Wallace Quotes

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.

You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.

The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.

The wisdom of the Holy Spirit is much greater than the wisdom of the entire world. Within the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, silence prevails; the wisdom of the world, however, goes astray into idle talk.

The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

God cannot reveal anything to us if we have not His spirit.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

In this light my spirit suddenly saw through all, and in and by all creatures, even in herbs and grass it knew God, who he is, and how he is, and what his will is: And suddenly in that light my will was set on by a mighty impulse, to describe the being of God.

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.

If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.

The share we have in the knowledge of truth, such as it is, has not been acquired by our own powers. God has taught ushis wonderful secrets; our faith is not of our acquiring, it is purely the gift of another's bounty.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

As the moon, though darkened with spots, gives us a much greater light than the stars that sewn all-luminous, so do the Scriptures afford more light than the brightest human authors. In them the ignorant may learn all requisite knowledge, and the most knowing may learn to discern their ignorance.

In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.