The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided; the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
When we really connect to that place of wisdom and strength and understanding, everything becomes easier.
Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength.
Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
To know people is wisdom, but to know yourself is enlightenment. to master people takes force, but to master yourself takes strength. to know contentment is wealth, and to live with strength resolve. to never leave whatever you are is to abide, and to die without getting lost- that is to live on and on.
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
...remember and think about the closeness of the Creator. If you live in this wisdom, it will give you endless strength and hope.
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
The picture placed the busts between
Adds to the thought much strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.
What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
I want to sit in my own sorrow, cry it out, talk to God, and say, 'Give me strength, wisdom.'
Wisdom isn't to know these words. Wisdom isn't to have ideas or philosophies - those are just thoughts. Wisdom is to be that perfect consciousness.
Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough.
Wisdom and strength, and my family, is what I'd like for you to pray for.
Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom.
I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times, and there is a stoicism in the face of challenges that I greatly admire.
Don't shrink from natures brutal perfection. Take joy in it. Embrace it. Understand it and revel in it. Respect it's strength, it's wisdom, it's brutality and it's all-encompassing power. The highest law has always been, and shall be, nature; and the greatest wisdom forever lives in and through nature's eternal Fascism.
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity.
... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.
The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.
There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.
Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.
It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
The deeper we look, the more we shall be convinced that the one thing wanting, which we must strive to acquire before all others, is strength strength physical, strength mental, strength moral, but above all strength spiritual which is the one inexhaustible and imperishable source of all the others. If we have strength everything else will be added to us easily and naturally.
Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil - not the strength to choose between the two.
You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.
O how sweet it is to enjoy life, Living in honesty and strength! And wisdom is sweet, And freedom.
A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.
Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.
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.
Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.
The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
Your life is a learning process - you can only become wiser from learning. Sometimes you might have to attract making a painful mistake to learn something important, but after the mistake you have far greater wisdom. Wisdom cannot be bought with money - it can only be acquired through living life. With wisdom comes strength, courage, knowing, and an ever-increasing peace.
The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Become aware that you already possess all the inner wisdom, strength, and creativity needed to make your dreams come true.
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.
Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.
God grant to all of us the power and strength to be people of integrity, and the insight and wisdom to avoid being led into the snares of the dishonest.
Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.
I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.
Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.
...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
Will is guided by wisdom. Wisdom comes from introspection, looking inside yourself, probing, studying the wisdom of the teachers, the masters and bringing that into your mind.
Be afraid of nothing. You have within you all wisdom, all power, all strength, all understanding.
There is another kind of wisdom, the wisdom of following - the wisdom of not taking the lead with your ego.
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