Wisdom

“The beginning of wisdom, the fear of our Lord: and the knowledge of the holy, prudence.”

“Receive ye discipline, and not money: choose doctrine rather than gold. For wisdom is better than all most precious riches: and whatsoever is to be desired cannot be compared to it.”

“Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and floweth with prudence.”

“Every best gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, descending from the Father of lights, with whom is no transmutation, nor shadowing of alteration.”

“Wisdom is clear, and such as never fadeth, and is easily seen of them that love her, and is found of them that seek her.”

“For by the greatness of the beauty, and of the creature, the Creator of them may be seen, to be known thereby.”

“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee […] then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God. Because our Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth prudence and knowledge.”

“The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom, and his tongue shall speak judgment.”

“Let the wise man display his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good deeds.”

“It is better for a man to be silent and be [a Christian], than to talk and not to be one.”

“For I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand.”

“I am the vine: you the branches. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for without me you can do nothing.”

“But to the called Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

“My throat shall meditate truth, and my lips shall detest the impious. All my words are just, there is no wicked, nor perverse thing in them.”

“The fear of our Lord hateth evil: arrogancy, and pride, and wicked way, and a double tongued mouth I do detest.”

“Take ye great heed of false Prophets, which come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly are ravening wolves.”

“O Timothee, keep the depositum, avoiding the profane novelties of voices, and oppositions of falsely called knowledge.”

“Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the verity, and the life. No man cometh to the Father; but by me.”

“And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.”

“Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth.”

“For the which cause laying away lying, speak ye truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.”

“And in all seducing of iniquity to them that perish; for that they have not received the charity of the truth that they might be saved.”

“That thou mayest know how thou oughtest to converse in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth.”

“Greater thank have I not of them, than that I may hear my children do walk in truth.”

“We have an altar: whereof they have not power to eat which serve the tabernacle.”

“He can no longer have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”

“Moreover, in the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all.”

“Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God from thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.”

“In this is charity: not as though we have loved him, but because he hath loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.”

“If you love me, keep my commandments.”

“For the glory of God is a living man; and the life of man consists in beholding God.”

“Thou awakest us to delight in Thy praise; for Thou madest us for Thyself, and our heart is restless, until it repose in Thee.”

“I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love due to Him is immeasurable love.”

“And we know that to them that love God, all things cooperate unto good, to such as according to purpose are called to be saints.”

“Seek therefore first the Kingdom of God, and the justice of him, and all these things shall be given you besides.”

“Casting all your carefulness upon him, because he hath care of you.”

“Now that which we receive entirely from the will of God is always very agreeable to Him, provided that we receive it with a good heart, and through love of his holy will: where there is least of our own, there is most of God's; the simple and pure acceptance of God's will makes our offerings extremely pure.”

“Because it is written: You shall be holy, because I am holy.”

“Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own prudence. In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.”

“Cast thy care upon our Lord: and he will nourish thee: he will not give fluctuation to the just for ever.”

“If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.”

“Now ‘he who raised him’ from the dead ‘will also raise us up’ if we do his will, and walk in his commandments […].”

“Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul.”

“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, except to love God, and only to serve Him.”

“In the cross is salvation, in the cross is life, in the cross is protection against our enemies, in the cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness, in the cross is strength of mind, in the cross joy of spirit, in the cross the height of virtue, in the cross the perfection of sanctity.”

“My son, the more thou canst go out of thyself, so much the more wilt thou be able to enter into Me.”

“Behold the handmaid of our Lord, be it done to me according to thy word.”

“But Mary kept all these words, conferring them in her heart.”

“His mother saith to the ministers: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye.”

“Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened to you.”

“Watch ye, and pray that ye enter not into tentation. The Spirit indeed is prompt, but the flesh weak.”

“Pray without intermission.”

“Rejoicing in hope. Patient in tribulation. Instant in prayer.”

“Give me wisdom the assistant of thy seats, and repel me not from thy children. […] Send her from thy holy heavens, and from the seat of thy greatness, that she may be with me, and may labour with me, that I may know what is acceptable with thee.”

“For it is thy heart's desire that is thy prayer; and if thy desire continues uninterrupted, thy prayer continueth also.”

“Prayer places our mind in the brightness and light of God, and exposes our will to the heat of heavenly love.”

“He who prays is certainly saved. He who prays not is certainly damned.”

“We are conquered solely by our own fault, because we would not pray. By prayer all the snares and power of the devil are easily overcome.”

“The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clutter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess GOD in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the Blessed Sacrament.”

“If it sometimes wander and withdraw itself from Him, do not much disquiet yourself for that: trouble and disquiet serve rather to distract the mind than to re-collect it: the will must bring it back in tranquility.”