God's Wisdom for Navigating Life: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Book of Proverbs

by Timothy J. Keller

Outside of Jesus is chaos and disorder. To choose that instead of choosing to be under the lordship of the one who created you and all things is folly. To the degree you are under Jesus’ lordship, you will grow in wisdom and see your life being healed.

Proverbs constantly insists that wisdom takes time to develop, and this makes sense if wisdom is a person and we have to learn how he thinks, what his attitudes are, and what actions would please him.

Plunge your failures into my grace and it will make you both astonishingly bold and profoundly humble at the same time—and so profoundly wise.”

we will never embrace the poor with love and respect for them until we see that we were spiritually poor and we live only by God’s grace.

The tears of Jesus are the deepest consolation possible.

Lord, I have learned that wisdom is only a by-product of wanting something more than wisdom—to see God! Aim at knowing you, and you get wisdom thrown in. Aim just at wisdom—in order to be successful—and you get neither.