„Who is like the wise man? Who knows the solution to a problem? A man’s wisdom lights up his face and softens his stern appearance. I say: “Obey the king’s orders out of regard for the oath to God. Do not rush to depart from his presence. Do not take a stand for anything bad; for he can do whatever he pleases, because the word of the king is absolute; who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?“

— Solomon

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„A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God's power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God's wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.“
— Jonathan Edwards
„To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.“
— Martin Buber
„God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.“
— Socrates
„If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he shows himself worthy to have.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„God will not lift a little finger for you, please know, because whatever he has to do, he has done it.“
— Sadhguru
„God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.“
— Max Lucado