Quotes About Discernment

Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.

Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

You have to master the art of selectivity in everything you do. Otherwise, you could be side-tracked by secondary events and opportunities.

Some things are not worth fighting for and some are worth dying for, Wisdom helps you understand which are which.

Be cautious when associating with those who have little or no value or appreciation for time.

Life can be compared to fishing, you can get anything you want, as long as you use the right bait.

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

It is difficult for a student to pick a good teacher, but it is more difficult for a teacher to pick a good student.

When I am with others, they are my teachers. I can select their good points and follow them, and select their bad points and avoid them.

Mindful choosing of friends and lovers, not to mention teachers, is critical to remaining conscious, remaining intuitive, remaining in charge of the fiery light that sees and knows.

False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words.

There is a temptation for the writer or the teacher of Church history to want to tell everything, whether it is worthy or faith promoting or not. Some things that are true are not very useful.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

You want to be choosy about what you let into your soul when you are likely not long for this world.

For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

It shows that a woman is not really a critic but a penetrator. She does not judge, she understands.

Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.

I began to appreciate that authentic truth is never simple and that any version of truth handed down from on high-whether by presidents, prime ministers, or archbishops-is inherently suspect.

The great mistake here is that God's children do not really believe that it is possible to know God's will. Or if they believe this, they do not take the time and trouble to discover it. What we need is to see clearly how the Father leads His waiting, teachable child to know that his petition is according to His will.

Even reading the news feed on the Internet, you can sense which information is credible among all the thousands of propagandist lies.

Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

For the first time she saw that the nurse's name was Tabitha.

I could tell.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.