A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
God's goodness is the root of all goodness; and our goodness, if we have any, springs out of His goodness.
God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.
The fruit of wisdom is Christlikeness, peace, humility and love. And, the root of it is faith in Christ as the manifested wisdom of God
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.
Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.
Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.
We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.
the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself
Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Prudent, cautious self-control is wisdom's root.
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.
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