145. WISDOM AND WISE SPEECH
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If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him (Jam.1:5).
1. The Lord has His chosen, His favourites: There are only a few wise and many foolish, and the wisest have lots of oil, oil to spare, and that oil comes from the Lord by His Spirit!
2. Wisdom is knowledge put to the test,
A discernment in choosing that which is best.
3. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Pro.1:7.
4. For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding (Pro.2:6).
5. From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
6. A good man does not hesitate to admit he has been in the wrong. He takes comfort in knowing he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
7. No wise man ever wished to be younger.
8. To admit I have been in the wrong is but saying that I am wiser today than I was yesterday.
9. It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
10. I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
11. "Thou art wise that thou art simple."
12. It's wise to wait.
13. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
14. Common sense is not so common.
15. Knowledge is knowing facts; wisdom is knowing what to do with the facts you know.
16. A wise man appears ridiculous in the company of fools.
17. Wisdom is meek. It's not smart-alecky, it's not show-off.
18. The highest wisdom is never to worry about the future but to resign ourselves entirely to His Will.
19. Discretion is the better part of valour.
20. If you pray for any gift of God nowadays in these Last Days, Beloved, pray for the gift of discernment!
21. The more I know, the more I know I don't know!
22. A wise old owl sat in a tree,
The less he spoke the more he'd see
The more he saw the more he heard,
Wish we were all like that old bird!
23. People are getting more ignorant all the time--the more they get away from the Lord the dumber they get, because the Lord gives wisdom only to the righteous!
24. Knowledge is nothing without the Spirit.
25. We have at our disposal the wisdom of the ages and the sages, the wisdom of all the kings and all the prophets that have ever lived!
26. What is wisdom?--Using knowledge in the proper way.
27. Ask God to help you to know when to laugh and when to be sober, and how to know the difference!
28. The best personnel we've got are not the smartest, but the dumbest, who are depending utterly on the Lord. The dumbest person depending on God can outsmart the smartest person not asking God for help!
29. Use your heads!--Don't loose'm!
30. Whatever you get, ask God for wisdom! Wisdom is how to use the knowledge of God, the facts you have, how to use what you already know!
31. Once you've got wisdom, the Lord might be able to trust you with a little more knowledge! But if you give some people too much knowledge without wisdom, they invent atom bombs and create destruction with their knowledge!
32. A wise man is wiser tomorrow than he was yesterday--you're entitled to change your mind if you find out you've got more sense later!
33. No matter how much you study and rightly divide the Word and are a good workman that needs not to be ashamed, if you don't use your knowledge with wisdom, it can only hurt rather than help.
34. A word to the wise is sufficient, but to the foolish you have to be more specific.
35. If you're not wiser tomorrow than you were yesterday, you're not very wise.
36. A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
37. By others' faults wise men correct their own.
38. A good deal of trouble has been caused in the World by too much knowledge and too little wisdom.
39. Tact is the ability to shut your mouth before someone else wants to.
40. The foolishness of God is wiser than men, and this World's wisdom is foolishness to Him! (1Cor.1:25; 3:19)
41. The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and if you begin to have a little wisdom it will eventually lead you to getting smart and loving Him. (Pro.9:10.)
42. I don't believe everything I hear and I don't follow everything I hear, but at least I listen! I try to weigh it and see if it's got any value or worth.
43. Until they can prove to me that it isn't so, I'm going to be open to the possibility that maybe it is so!
44. He that knows not and knows not that he knows not,
He is a fool--shun him!
He that knows not and knows that he knows not,
He is simple--teach him!
He that knows and knows not that he knows,
He is asleep--wake him!
He that knows and knows that he knows,
He is a wise man--follow him!
45. It's wise to be loving, it's wise to be kind, it's wise to be considerate, it's wise to be forgiving.
46. It is wise to be simple. Knowledge is not it. People would be wiser if they were just simple. The Lord has to get by all that knowledge to get to their heart.
47. Give us wisdom and most of all love, Lord. Thy love is wisdom and You give it to us to help a dear wandering searching soul who's really seeking.
48. You're a bit dumb but you're very wise because you waited for the Lord, like a little child which is dumb.--But very wise, wise because you waited.
49. What is wisdom?--How to use the knowledge of God.
50. With all thy getting, get wisdom. Whatever you get, ask God for wisdom (Pro.4:7).
51. If you give some people too much knowledge without wisdom, they invent atom bombs and war machines and spaceships and go about making war and shooting off into space while millions are starving to death.
52. I think that even the common sense He gives you about practical things is wisdom from the Lord just as much as direct revelations.
53. Most of the inconspicuous gifts are the ones leaders need most--discernment, knowledge and wisdom.
54. Where happiness is madness `tis wisdom in disguise.
Where sanity is sadness, `tis folly to be wise.
55. "Kiss the wisdom of the Words that I have given unto thy Father David."
56. "Behold, who has greater wisdom than the wisdom of the ages that I have given unto thee through My gifts of My Spirit."
57. I have the wisdom of the ages and the sages and all the prophets and all the kings and all the great men of the past available to me to help me! So I can call on the Lord and He gives me wisdom through any one of them whatever I need.
58. "Be wise as a viper and loving as a dove to carry out the Words of David."
59. Lord, give us great love, great wisdom, great patience, and to know how to go out and come in wisely before all the people, and that we have a good testimony and are witnesses of Thy love every moment of every day.
60. Give us all wisdom, guard our tongues, everyone of us, Lord, to know what to say. Help us to seek Thy face, Thy Holy Spirit, Thy Words for the right things to speak about, comments, even the slightest suggestions, Lord, that we're not speaking from our own understanding and our own mouth but by Thy wisdom, Lord.
61. Give us great wisdom, humility and love, Lord, these three being the same and virtually synonymous, wisdom, humility and love--but the greatest of these is love.
62. As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, the fear of Satan is the beginning of death.
63. When you don't have the wisdom of the Holy Spirit you're awful dumb.
(See also No. 50, 91, 143A, 198, 263, 274A, 542, 620, 627, 794, 942, 943, 985, 1004, 1012, 1436, 1475, 1549.)
64. DEU.32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
65. 1SA.18:14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.
66. 1SA.18:30 Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, after they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
67. 1KI.4:29 And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
68. JOB.16:5 But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.
69. JOB.28:28 Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
70. PSA.19:7b The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
71. PSA.111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endureth for ever.
72. PSA.119:73b Give me understanding, that I may learn Thy commandments.
73. PSA.119:98a,99,100 Thou through Thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for Thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Thy precepts.
74. PRO.1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels.
75. PRO.1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
76. PRO.2:1-7a My son, if thou wilt receive My Words, and hide My commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest Her as silver, and searchest for Her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of His mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous.
77. PRO.2:10,11 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee.
78. PRO.3:13-17 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto Her. Length of days is in Her right hand; and in Her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
79. PRO.4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the Words of My mouth.
80. PRO.4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
81. PRO.8:11,12 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
82. PRO.8:35 For whoso findeth Me (wisdom) findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
83. PRO.10:8 The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.
84. PRO.10:11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
85. PRO.10:31,32 The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
86. PRO.11:12 He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
87. PRO.12:19 The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
88. PRO.15:31 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
89. PRO.16:13 Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.
90. PRO.16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
91. PRO.16:20a He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good.
92. PRO.17:24 Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the Earth.
93. PRO.19:8 He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
94. PRO.19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
95. PRO.24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established.
96. PRO.25:11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
97. PRO.27:12 A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
98. PRO.28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.
99. ECC.7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
100. ECC.9:16-18 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard. The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
101. DAN.1:17a,20 As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
102. DAN.2:23a I thank Thee, and praise Thee, O Thou God of my fathers, Who hast given me wisdom and might.
103. AMO.5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
104. LUK.21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
105. ACT.6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
106. ROM.16:19b I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
107. 1CO.12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit.
108. 1CO.14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
109. EPH.1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him:
110. COL.2:2b,3 Christ; In Whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
111. COL.4:6 Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
112. 2TI.2:7 The Lord give thee understanding in all things.
113. JAM.1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
114. JAM.3:13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
115. JAM.3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
116. 1PE.2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice...and all evil speakings.
117. REV.14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.
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