Quotes About Discernment

God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.

Searching for what's beyond appearances opens our divine eyes to see the concealed facts in experience.

Women have eyes in their hearts that see what men cannot.

...to know an other's interior life you are his confessor or a writer - the one is admitted freely, the other intrudes by discerning of spirits

A better understanding is a good factor in all things for it gives good reasons for good actions, but to come to a certain understanding, you need to get a certain understanding!

What smells good may not always taste good, I leaned this the day I tried to eat a scented candle.

Not every emotion deserves the same attention

Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles.

This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!

It is wise to buy acquaintances, but foolish to buy friends.

Don't judge a tree by its size, but by its fruit.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

Be slow to teach, and quick to learn. Avoid impious people, run from fools, and seek out the wise.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

There are always two sides to every story, and it is generally wise, and safe, and charitable, to take the best; and yet there is probably no one way in which persons are so liable to be wrong, as in presuming the worst is true, and in forming and expressing their judgement of others, and of their actions, without waiting till all the truth is known.

It is by the mixture of counterfeit religion with true, not discerned and distinguished, that the devil has had his greatest advantage against the cause and kingdom of Christ, all along hitherto.