J. I. Packer - Wisdom Quotes

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Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

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Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it.

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God in his wisdom, to make and keep us humble and to teach us to walk by faith, has hidden from us almost everything that we should like to know about the providential purposes which he is working out in the churches and in our own lives.

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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

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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

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Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

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