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Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

— Charles Stanley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

— David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

— Orison Swett Marden

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

— Buddha

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

— Julia Ward Howe

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

— Herman Hesse

✗Opposing Perspectives

Surely wisdom will come as we listen to learn from children, parents, partners, neighbors, Church leaders, and the Lord.

— Russell M. Nelson

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

— Honore de Balzac

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

— Frederick William Robertson

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

— Victor Hugo