Quotes About Discernment

Listen to everything that is said, and see everything that is done. Observe the looks and countenances of those who speak, which is often a surer way of discovering the truth than from what they say. But then keep all those observations to yourself, for your own private use, and rarely communicate them to others. Observe, without being thought an observer, for otherwise people will be upon their guard before you.

Hemingway said that the best thing a writer can have is "a built-in shit detector.

A mature Christian recognizes that correcting every wrong on the Internet would take more hours than a full-time job. If you snap every time your great-aunt's friend's cousin thrice-removed makes a snarky comment about "all the contradictions in the Bible," it will consume you and your joy.

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Truth or tact You have to choose. Most times they are not compatible.

People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which.

The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of eye and mind for symmetry, harmony, and order.

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain.

Sometimes Christians speak of each decision of their lives as though they were launching a moon-shot where a single miscalculation would send the capsule into a trackless void. Even space scientist do better than that, correcting the flight of their space-probes by radioed signals. God does much better. He knows that we are often incapable of distinguishing trivial decisions from momentous ones, and that we are foolish and imperceptive. He knows---- and keeps us in his hand.

Private soul-searching is not enough to determine your call to the ministry. The judgment of the people of God must be sought; long before the time when it must be given formally it should be sought informally.

Nunca. Nunca, jamás, hay que caer en manos de un boludo. Porque si uno termina en manos de un boludo significa que uno también es un boludo. Un boludo más boludo aún que el boludo en cuyas manos cayó.

We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

The lips of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Judge not according to the appearance.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are showed unto thee than men understand.

A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?

He knows when you're happy He knows when you're comfortable He knows when you're confident And he always knows when you have carrots.

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.