Quotes About Discernment

SCRIPTURE OFTEN WARNS ABOUT spiritual deception (Matthew 7:15-23; 24:5; 2 Corinthians 11:4; Galatians 1:8; 1 John 4:1). God obviously does not want people to be deceived. This is one reason a study of the cults is important.

Never lend your name, or your money, or your books or your umbrella, or anything, to anybody - if you're wise.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

All this became evident to us

grinned. "That is what you call instinct. You feel the trust. You know by instinct that you can trust me, and the same instinct tells you that you cannot trust Tommy Decker. Animals have the best instincts.

To hear is one thing, to know is another.

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

besides, this is much too good to tell all the other brutes in the Coll. They'd never understand. They play cricket, and say, 'Yes sir', and 'Oh, sir', and 'No, sir'.

A wise person would have known this, but sometimes it is better to feel a prickle than to be wise.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but it's not true. The cover is all you get. But it is true that appearances can be deceptive, surely. Only if you let yourself be influenced by what other people think. If you trust your own feelings, you can judge anybody by the way they look and never go wrong.

Lord, give us weak eyes for things of little worth, and eyes clear-sighted in all of your truth.

those who possess faith should take care to set up certain criteria so that one might distinguish the paradox from a temptation (Anfechtung).

Only fools accept the obvious and go no further; use your brain, Jilly.

if wisdom was easy any fool would be able to do it.

a person must sometimes choose what he will see and what he will not; look away, look away from there now.

I had learned that secrets were not always a bad thing.

These are the times we live in, in which men hide their truths, perhaps even from themselves, and live in lies, until the lies reveal those truths in ways impossible to foretell.

We know the principles of coaching. The art is knowing when to apply them.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Our strength is seen in the things we stand for; our weakness is seen in the things we fall for.

I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

If your heart says, "Maybe I shouldn't be doing this," listen to your heart, pray for strength, and get out of the situation immediately.

I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.