Bits o’ Wisdom

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent

human being would eat?

If the professor on Gilligan's Island can make a radio

out of coconut, why can't he fix a hole in a boat?

The optimist sees the glass as half full.

The pessimist sees the glass as half empty.

The realist sees the glass as being twice as big

as it needs to be.

If Wile E. Coyote had enough money to buy all that Acme stuff,

why didn't he just buy a roadrunner dinner?

It's frustrating when you know all the answers,

but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom.

Sometimes age comes alone.

““From where From where then does then does

wisdom come?”wisdom come?”

Job 28: 20Job 28: 20

Good judgment Good judgment comes from comes from experience; experience;

experience comes experience comes from bad judgmentfrom bad judgment

Good judgment Good judgment comes from comes from experience; experience;

experience comes experience comes from bad judgmentfrom bad judgment

““I, wisdom, I, wisdom, dwell together dwell together with prudence; with prudence;

I possess knowledge I possess knowledge and discretion.”and discretion.”

Proverbs 8: 1-21Proverbs 8: 1-21

““I was there when I was there when He set the heavens He set the heavens

in place, ...”in place, ...”

Proverbs 8: 22-36Proverbs 8: 22-36

““But God made the But God made the earth by His power; earth by His power;

He founded the He founded the world by His world by His wisdom…”wisdom…”

Jeremiah 10: 12-16Jeremiah 10: 12-16

““It is because of Him It is because of Him that you are in Christ that you are in Christ

Jesus, Jesus, who has become for who has become for

us wisdom from us wisdom from God…”God…”

I Corinthians 1 & 2I Corinthians 1 & 2

Bits o’ Wisdom

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is

'when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too

tired to bounce it.’

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.

Groucho Marx

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon.

Then it's time for my nap. Bob Hope

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step,

he's too old to go anywhere. Billy Crystal

““But I fear, lest But I fear, lest somehow, as the somehow, as the

serpent deceived Eve serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so by his craftiness, so your minds may be your minds may be corrupted from the corrupted from the simplicity that is in simplicity that is in

Christ.”Christ.”

II Corinthians 11: 3 II Corinthians 11: 3 NKJV

““Counsel and sound Counsel and sound judgment are mine.”judgment are mine.”

Proverbs 8: 14Proverbs 8: 14

““the Spirit of counsel the Spirit of counsel and of power...”and of power...”

Isaiah 11: 2Isaiah 11: 2““Unless I go away, the Unless I go away, the

Counselor will not come Counselor will not come to you….”to you….”John 16: 7John 16: 7

““And the child grew And the child grew and became strong; and became strong; he was filled with he was filled with wisdom, and the wisdom, and the grace of God was grace of God was

upon him.”upon him.”Luke 2: 39-40Luke 2: 39-40Luke 2: 46-47Luke 2: 46-47

Luke 2: 52Luke 2: 52

"Where did this man "Where did this man get this wisdom and get this wisdom and

these miraculous these miraculous powers?" powers?"

Matthew 13: 53-56Matthew 13: 53-56

““I will give you I will give you words and wisdom…” words and wisdom…”

Luke 21: 12-15Luke 21: 12-15Matthew 10: 19-20Matthew 10: 19-20

““Give me wisdom Give me wisdom and knowledge, and knowledge,

that I may lead this that I may lead this people…” people…”

II Chronicles 1: 6-II Chronicles 1: 6-1212

Ask for wisdom, Ask for wisdom, then believe and not then believe and not

doubt doubt

James 1: 5-8James 1: 5-8

Earthly wisdom? Earthly wisdom? Or heavenly? Or heavenly?

James 3: 13-18James 3: 13-18

Bits o’ Wisdom

Conventional wisdomis neither

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again. Then quit.

There’s no sense being a darn fool about it!

W.C Fields

Don’t worry about the world ending today. Its already tomorrow in Australia.

Charles Shultz

When the chips are down, at least you know the

buffalo is emptyGarrison Keillor

Don’t take life so seriously. You’re not going to get out

of it alive anyway.Red Skelton

Seize the day! Just think of all the ladies on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart.

Erma Bombeck

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there;

lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit

down on a hot stove-lid again – and that is well;

but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

Mark Twain

The manifold wisdom The manifold wisdom

of God should be of God should be made known how? made known how?

Ephesians 3: 7-12Ephesians 3: 7-12

God’s secret wisdom God’s secret wisdom I Corinthians 2: 7I Corinthians 2: 7

This mystery hidden This mystery hidden in God in God

Ephesians 3: 9Ephesians 3: 9

Christ in you, Christ in you, the hope of glorythe hope of gloryColossians 1: 25-27Colossians 1: 25-27

I I AMAM the church the church

I have the mind of I have the mind of Christ Christ

I am a letter from I am a letter from ChristChrist

II Corinthians 3: 1-II Corinthians 3: 1-33

I am the temple I am the temple of the Holy Spirit of the Holy Spirit

The fear of the The fear of the Lord – Lord –

that is wisdom, that is wisdom, and to shun evil and to shun evil is understanding is understanding

Job 28: 20-28Job 28: 20-28

Psalm 111Psalm 111Proverbs 9: 10, 15: Proverbs 9: 10, 15:

3333Isaiah 33: 5-6Isaiah 33: 5-6

Bits o’ Wisdom

These are my principles.If you don’t like them,

I have others. Groucho Marx

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there

when it happens.Woody Allen

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap

as they go by.

Will Rogers

There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the

shore like an idiot.Steven Wright

“Women don't want to hear what you think. Women

want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.”

Bill Cosby

You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.

The church grew in The church grew in numbers, numbers,

living in the fear of living in the fear of the Lord the Lord

Acts 9: 31Acts 9: 31

Luke 12: 4-5Luke 12: 4-5

"The remarkable "The remarkable thing about fearing thing about fearing

God is that when you God is that when you fear God, you fear fear God, you fear

nothing else, nothing else, whereas if you do whereas if you do not fear God, you not fear God, you fear everything fear everything

else."else." (Oswald (Oswald

Chambers)Chambers)

One way that I fear the One way that I fear the Lord is that He will Lord is that He will

actually allow me to actually allow me to live the way I choose, live the way I choose,

through my own through my own wisdom.wisdom.

Romans 1Romans 1

““The fear of the Lord The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,” is a fountain of life,” but this healing fear but this healing fear is today hardly found is today hardly found

among Christian among Christian men.men.

A.W. TozerA.W. TozerThe Knowledge of The Knowledge of

the Holythe Holy

No fear?No fear?No wisdomNo wisdom

“…to repudiate our “…to repudiate our own wisdom and own wisdom and take instead the take instead the

infinite wisdom of infinite wisdom of God.”God.”

A.W. TozerA.W. TozerThe Knowledge of The Knowledge of

the Holythe Holy