Wisdom of God Quotes

QUESTION: Wisdom of God Quotes – What do theologians say?

ANSWER:

"Since God is infinite and wise, He must be infinitely wise: This is called omnisapience. So as applied to God, wisdom refers to His unerring ability to choose the best means to accomplish the best ends. As such, God wisdom is written in several other attributes: His omniscience provides the knowledge for His wise choices; His omnibenevolence assures that they will be good choices; and His omnipotence enables Him to achieve His ends by the means He chooses." – Dr. Norman Geisler¹

"Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and His Christ have imparted wisdom." – Justin Martyr²

"It is impossible for God to will anything but what His wisdom approves. That is, as it were, His law of justice, in accordance with which His will is right and just. Hence, what He does according to His will He does justly: as we do justly what we do according to law. But whereas law comes to us from some higher power, God is a law unto Himself. – Thomas Aquinas³

"God’s wisdom is seen in his works of creation, preservation and redemption: it is his choice of his own glory as his goal (Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 42:8; 48:11), and his decision to achieve it first by creating a marvelous variety of things and people (Psalm 104:24; Proverbs 3:19-20), second by kindly providences of all sorts (Psalm 145:13-16; Acts 14:17), and third by the redemptive “wisdom” of “Christ crucified” (1 Corinthians 1:18–2:16) and the resultant world church (Ephesians 3:10)." – J.I. Packer⁴

“In the Holy Scriptures wisdom, when used of God and good men, always carries a strong moral connotation. It is conceived as being pure, loving, and good...Wisdom, among other things, is the ability to devise perfect ends and to achieve those ends by the most perfect means. It sees the end from the beginning, so there can be no need to guess or conjecture. Wisdom sees everything in focus, each in proper relation to all, and is thus able to work toward predestined goals with flawless precision.”⁵

“Wisdom is the power to see, and the inclination to choose, the best and highest goal, together with the surest means of attaining it. Wisdom is, in fact, the practical side of moral goodness. As such, it is found in its fulness only in God. He alone is naturally and entirely and invariable wise.” J.I. Packer, Knowing God⁶

Footnotes:
¹ Geisler, Dr. Norman. Systematic Theology, 211.
² Justin Martyr. Dialogue with Trypho in Roberts and Donaldson, The Ante-Nicene Fathers.
³ Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica, 1a. 21, 1.
⁴ Packer, J.I. Concise Theology
⁵Tozer, A.W. The Knowledge of the Holy, 66.
⁶ Packer, J.I., Knowing God, 80.

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