Quotes About Discernment

Every day I need to hear that voice behind me saying: 'This is the way; walk in it' (Isa. 30:21)

Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.

You probably like discernment websites run from caves deep in the woods; the words illuminati, Armageddon, last days, and one-world order; not having any fun; trying to connect current events to the book of Daniel; and sketching out an end times chart on an ammo box while your wife churns butter and your kids save up enough money to run away from home.

Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for it: "church shopping.

In my own Examen, then, I praydream—prayerfully daydream. I concretely imagine how I might approach the next twenty-four hours if I were to be God's hands and feet and voice.

But in life you have to take lots of decisions and if you don't take decisions you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between things you could do. So it is good to have a reason why you hate some things and you like others.

I said that I wasn't clever. I was just noticing how things were, and that wasn't clever. That was just being observant.

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, What do you want to do today? you say, I want to do painting with Mrs. Peters, but you don't say, I want to have my lunch and I want to go to the toilet and I want to go home after school and I want to play with Toby and I want to have my supper

En la vida tienes que tomar montones de decisiones, y si no tomaras decisiones, nunca harías nada, porque te pasarías todo el tiempo eligiendo entre las cosas que hacer. O sea, que es bueno tener una razón por la que odias unas cosas y te gustan otras.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

The best thing in the world is the truth. You find it out anyway, in the end, or sooner.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Usually it is a bit of a trick to keep your knowledge from blinding you.

I didn't obscure anything, I just left it out.

Frances learns something in this moment that will allow her to survive and function for the rest of her life. She finds out that one thing can look like another. That the facts of a situation don't necessarily indicate anything about the truth of a situation. In this moment, fact and truth become separated and commence to wander like twins in a fairy-tale, waiting to be reunited by that special someone who possesses the secret of telling them apart.

Zizhang asked, "What is keen discernment?" Confucius said, "When slanders that seep under the skin and grievances that cause pain do not drive you to an immediate response, you may be said to have keen discernment.

You know a fact that strikes one very forcibly as one grows older is that some people are intelligent and some are stupid.

In its vulgar way, a painstaking piece of work, although one must always remember—something often forgotten today—that because things are generally known, they are not necessarily the better for being written down, or publicly announced. Some are, some aren't. As in everything else, good sense, taste, art, all have their place. Saying you prefer to disregard art, taste, good sense, does not mean that those elements do not exist—it merely means you lack them yourself

Enormous simplifications were possibly necessary to carry a deeper truth than lay on the surface of a mass of unsorted detail.

The art of the police consists in not seeing what there is no use seeing.' Napoleon Bonaparte

She was an old woman who thought all evil of those she did not know, and all good of those whom she did know....

Lord Fawn did not immediately recognise the falseness of every word that the woman said to him, because he was slow and could not think and hear at the same time.