'Wisdom is more than merely attaining or collecting facts. A person may have a great deal of knowledge and may be a master of trivia but still not have wisdom, for there is a moral and ethical dimension to wisdom. Wisdom is not an end in itself, but a means to moudling human behaviour in a way that pleases God...Wisdom allows us to pursue what is good in life, not as judged by our standards but as judged by the Creator. Wisdom allows us to see what is important to God, what values he gives us for our own benefits, and it allows him to teach us how we can pursue them. Wisdom allows us to rightly use knowledge, it allows us to be discerning. Said otherwise, wisdom is knowledge rightly understood.'
Tim Challies, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment, p.56.
