Quotes About Discernment

The gatekeeper at the first door asks, "Is it true?" The second gatekeeper asks, "Is it helpful?" The third gatekeeper asks, "Is it kind?

Discernment, says Lonsdale, is about the "spiritual interpretation and evaluation of feelings, and particularly with the direction in which we are moved by them.

Just because you've discerned doesn't mean that you shouldn't look to reality for some real-life confirmation. As one Jesuit said, "Trust your heart but use your head, too.

Love is not blind; it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.

is the world or the church is actually irrelevant. The point is simply that the devil is going to bring forward people (whether in the church or out of it) so much like true Christians, yet not Christians, that even the servants of God will not be able to tell them apart.

Watch for contradictory information (page 37).

The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

Keep an open mind, but no so open that your brains fall out

The eyes of the owner can see what no one else can see.

There is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out.

Michelangelo once said that David already exists in the unpolished block of marble; the artist's job is to set him free by carving away everything that isn't David.

Don't be stupid." "I think that's what I'm best known for.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.

I do not like hardness of heart, but neither do I like softness of head.

To find the best authors," he boasted, "is like being able to tell good wine without the labels.

It was said in the office "that Sam had three hundred ideas a minute, but only JSP knew which one was not crazy.

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time will sort the good from the bad– including your own bad.

Algunos no saben distinguir el bien del mal ni siquiera cuando se les muestra.

Piero Strozzi and Francis Crawford looked at one another. 'A hint,' said Lymond, 'sufficeth for the wise, but a thousand speeches profit not the heedless. Did you hear what she said?' 'Unfortunately,' said Piero Strozzi, 'I heard what she said.

She's got sense, that girl; and too much backbone to push herself where she's not wanted. Tell her it's no good, and she'll soon see the point.

A lie is a broad and spacious and glittering thing, sweeping belief before it from its very grandeur. But the truth fits, like an old man cutting cloth in an attic. And that, Philippa did not need to be told, was the truth, which Lymond had guessed long before her.

My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.