Quotes About Discernment

What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.

Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever!

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.

Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.

There is a time to be quiet and a time to talk.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

There is no other way to know good from evil, right from wrong, unless we have His Word dwelling richly in our heart. It's good for us to spend time in His Word.

at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

Once again she had the odd sense that she had been missing something, seeing the world flat when everything was rounded.

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

How can I make it clear to him that what appears easy and attractive will drag him down into the depths, depths where there is no comfort to be found, no friends and no beauty, depths from which it is almost impossible to raise oneself?

She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them?

Quero ver as coisas com olhos novos e formar minha opinião.

If you are mesmerized by televised stupidity, and don't get to hear or read stories about your world, you can be fooled into thinking that the world isn't miraculous--and it is.

Usually if you pray from the heart, you get an answer—the phone rings or the mail comes, and light gets in through the cracks, so you can see the next right thing to do. That's all you need.

If you stop trying to control your mind so much, you'll have intuitive hunches about what this or that character is all about.