Quotes About Discernment

For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Reason also is choice.

Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it.

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

Discernment emerges from understanding the nature of the conflict and what level of response is needed to deal with it adequately. Creativity is needed for flexibility and innovation.

Deaf people can be the sharpest hearers and blind people can be the sharpest see-ers. It's not physical. Dullness of hearing, you remember from 6:12 and 3:18, is the failure to make use of the Word heard to nurture faith and bear the fruit of obedience.

What must be seen is not mere news and not mere knowledge. What must be seen is light.

What this means is that if you want to grow up and feast on the fullness of God's revelation, you don't do it by jumping from milk to meat. You do it by the way you drink the milk. The milk has to make you a certain kind of discerning person before you can digest the meat.

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When you have nothing to say, one of your alternatives is to keep your trap shut.

When you find a germ of truth, beware. Those germs can make you sick.

Taste… is the only morality…. Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Prudence" is practical wisdom or good sense.

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Talk low, Talk slow, and Don't say too much.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?

A good leader takes in all the information and facts they can, before they make any decision.

everything spoken on this earth contains a truth not always apparent at the time.

The Christian who loves his heavenly Father may not discern by outward providences or visible signs any heavenly favor above that given those with little or no consecration. Often he is sorely afflicted, distressed, perplexed, and hedged in on every side. Appearances seem to be against him. .

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.