Quotes About Discernment

Let those who are wise understand these things. Let those with discernment listen carefully. The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. HOSEA 14:9 NLT

En Mateo 12:36, Jesús dijo: «Mas yo os digo que de toda palabra ociosa que hablen los hombres, de ella darán cuenta en el día del juicio».

To be careful really means to be wise - to choose to do now what you will be happy with later.

One of the lessons Obi-Wan needed to learn was to look beneath the surface. Perhaps this was one way.

It's very foolish to laugh if you don't know what's funny in the first place.

Any man who develops the power to perceive truth, and who can show that he always knows the right thing to do and that he can be trusted to do the right thing, will be honored and advanced.

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Wisdom is knowing what you can accept.

O K?l?mas, when you know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome (akusala), and wrong, and bad, then give them up . . . And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome (kusala) and good, then accept them and follow them.

You can know that you are judging illegitimately when your standard rests outside of Scripture, such as judging motives. Clearly, judging the motives of another places you outside the parameters of legitimate judging.

That God's will can be discerned by the fruits of the spirit it brings. That peace of soul and joy of heart are two such signs, provided they follow upon total commitment and openness to God alone and are not founded on the self's desires.

That grace is always given to us, but we must learn to recognize it in the people and circumstances presented to us by God's providence, in the thoughts and inspirations that tug at our minds and our hearts.

Dios, que era todo en todo; no había más que una voluntad que lo gobernaba todo: la voluntad de Dios. Solo tenía que verla, descubrirla en cualquier circunstancia en la que me hallara, y dejarme guiar por ella.

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

We learn to understand why our addled minds seize so little with precision, why they are caught up and tossed about in a kind of tarantella by headlines and catch-words, why so often they cannot tell things apart or discern identity in apparent differences.

Truth by definition is exclusive. If truth were all-inclusive, nothing would be false.

There are times when the truth is the worst possible thing you can come out with.

Beurteile ein Buch nicht nach seinem Umschlag!

your choices can then only be as good as your requests, and sometimes that is not enough. There is a higher level that comes through recognition: You may not be able to articulate what you want, but you can recognize it when you see it.

La clave para no caer en identificaciones falsas es aprender a discriminar la importancia real (objetiva, sin sesgos) de la importancia ficticia (exagerada y sin arraigo en la realidad) de las cosas o las personas con las que nos vinculamos.

fíjate en lo que se dice y no en quien lo dice.   El

Todo placer es una cosa buena, mas no todo placer debe ser perseguido; y, paralelamente, todo dolor es un mal, pero no todo dolor debe ser evitado a cualquier precio. En todo caso, es conveniente decidir sobre estas cuestiones comparando y examinando atentamente lo que es útil y lo que no lo es, porque a veces usamos un bien como si fuera un mal, y un mal como si fuera un bien.41

She wasn't given to thinking very far, but she did a lot of intelligent feeling.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)