Quotes About Discernment

It is curious what patches of hardness and tenderness lie side by side in men's dispositions. I suppose he has some test by which he finds out whom Heaven cares for.

Take your sensibility and use it as a vision

Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them

It is better to keep your mouth closed and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I hold it a crime to expose a man's sin unless I'm clear it must be done to save the innocent

Perhaps we don't always discriminate between sense and nonsense.

These charitable people never know vinegar from wine till they have swallowed it and got the colic.

You're like a tipsy man as thinks everybody's had too much but himself.

Happily she never attempted to joke, and this perhaps was the most decisive mark of her cleverness

Don't judge a book by it's cover

It's no mischief much while she's a little un; but an over-'cute woman's no better nor a long-tailed sheep,—she'll fetch none the bigger price for that.

The master was odd. I was kind and just to my dependants, but I excited in them a shrinking, half-contemptuous pity; for this class of men and women are but slightly determined in their estimate of others by general considerations, or even experience, of character. They judge of persons as they judge of coins, and value those who pass current at a high rate.

When women are trying to keep a man, just make sure it's a man that you want to keep. You know, he might be cute and drives this type of vehicle and has a nice little bank account, but is he really somebody that you would want?

Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.

A word to the wise is enough.

I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.

A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

I don't like the word 'perfectionist,' because it's self-flattering. It's tooting your own horn and implies that you actually can achieve perfection. I prefer 'particularist.'

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.