Great leaders search for wisdom, and when they find wise quotes, they collect them. After all, what is the book of Proverbs other than a collection of wise quotes. True: God gave Solomon wisdom, but the wise king also collected wise quotes whenever he encountered them. Beside the book of Proverbs, here are some wise quotes to help your collection.
33 Wise Quotes You Need to Help Guide Your Ministry
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” —C.S. Lewis
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” —C.S. Lewis
“God can’t give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.” —C.S. Lewis
“The provision is in the promises.” —Derek Prince
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.” —Annie Dillard
“Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?” —Annie Dillard
“Our old history ends with the Cross; our new history begins with the resurrection.” —Watchman Nee
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” —Corrie ten Boom
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” —Corrie ten Boom
“Hold everything in your hands lightly; otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” —Corrie ten Boom
“Grace is not opposed to effort; it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.” —Dallas Willard
“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying, ‘Why?’” —Dallas Willard
“I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.” —Dallas Willard
“Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.” —Dallas Willard
“When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God’s work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.” —Richard Foster
“The world upon whom grace is thrust as a bargain will grow tired of it.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” —Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Peace is first of all the art of being.” —Henri J.M. Nouwen
