Quotes About Discernment

where perspicacity is weakened,

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

intelligence and wisdom aren't the same.

Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?

This is how we can distinguish true religion from superstition: when the Word of God directs us, there is true religion; but when each man follows his own opinion, or when men join together to follow an opinion they hold in common, the result is always concocted superstition.

As to their question-How can we be assured that this has sprung from God unless we have recourse to the decree of the church?-it is as if someone asked: Whence will we learn to distinguish light from darkness, white from black, sweet from bitter? Indeed, Scripture exhibits fully as clear evidence of its own truth as white and black things do of their color, or sweet and bitter things do of their taste.

the only way the false teachers can make sail against us is by appearing to be endowed with the Spirit of God. But

Shall we, indeed, distinguish between right and wrong by that judgment which has been imparted to us, yet will there be no judge in heaven?

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

They looked to Ferrier like they ate bad food to match their bad taste in clothes and wheels. The

discovered that silence made a lot of people uneasy, and they would often say something to break it, thus revealing themselves in the process.

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.

Expertness of taste is at once the result and reward of constant exercise of thinking.

For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.

We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

Start from scratch with Jesus every day and then be picky about what you add to your life.

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.