The Wisdom Pyramid Quotes

“In the competitive landscape of the digital age, the “food” of information is not getting more nutritious; it’s veering in the direction of junk food. Doritos and Skittles will always get more clicks than spinach. And so we walk down the buffet line of social media snacks and online junk food, daily gorging ourselves to the point of gluttony. Unsurprisingly, it is making us sick.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“La sabiduría no es solo un conocimiento intelectual de Dios. Es un profundo anhelo por Dios. Más que un deseo de conocer el mundo como Dios lo conoce, la sabiduría es el deseo de conocer el mundo con Dios. Es una búsqueda incesante de la presencia de Dios. Es un hambre y una sed desesperadas de Dios, el pan de vida y el agua viva. La sabiduría es adoración.”
― Brett McCracken, La Pirámide de la Sabiduría: Cómo alimentar tu alma en un mundo posverdad

“Or there is James 1:19—a verse that, if heeded, would prevent all manner of grief in today’s world (but would also probably put social media out of business): “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“Jesus doesn't just want a relationship with us on the thought level. He wants us to commune with him, and one another, as embodied beings. He came as an incarnate, flesh-and-blood person who walked and talked and ate with us. God could have just sent us a PowerPoint presentation with five ideas to believe in order to be saved. Instead he sent a person. God in flesh, our hope divine.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“The antidote to dangerous distractibility is purpose, focus, and intention. Proverbs 4:25 says, “Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” This is wisdom in contrast to the unwise woman of folly, who “does not ponder the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it” (Prov. 5:6).”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“Never has the devil’s work been easier in the area of novelty obsession.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“We’re all susceptible to the path of least cognitive resistance: selecting sources that harmonize with our existing beliefs and don’t complicate our paradigms or rile us up.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World

“spectacle resistance”: “Our lazy eyes and incurious gaze are happily fed by the spectacle makers. We no longer seek out new spectacles; new spectacles seek us out.”
― Brett McCracken, The Wisdom Pyramid: Feeding Your Soul in a Post-Truth World