Posts tagged ‘wisdom’
Wednesday of Hope – Our Greatest Hope
Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
– Ecclesiastes 2:13
Christmas is the Feast of Christ Our Light coming into the world. During this season, we often refer to Jesus as Emmanuel, which means God With Us. In this our Hope rests.
Wisdom of Imagination and Art
What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
– Rollo May, The Courage to Create
Wisdom of Perspective
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.
-Baal Shem Tov
Wisdom of the Long View
If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work but rather, teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Wisdom from the Poet
Singing streams
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.
– Wendell Berry
Wisdom from the Meister
Soaring osprey
If the soul could have known God without the world, the world would never have been created.
– Meister Eckhart
The Mark of Wisdom
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The uncommon beauty of the common red-winged blackbird
