Quotes About Discernment

Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

la simple y humilde diferencia entre lo apropiado y lo inapropiado en un momento concreto.

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing

When something's one thing, it's not another.

If you don't know what to do, do nothing.

The crucified Christ, in short, gives us the "Magic Eye" to discern him in the depths of even the most horrifically violent portraits of God.

There was a thin chain to thinking, he realized, which began with seeing something noticeable, which in time made you see something that wasn't apparent, which finally made you see something that wasn't even visible—if you were doing it right.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

Karl remembered his great truth, learned in the project: Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Ah, to be able to read both the surface and that which is below the surface!

I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.

There's a truth that's deeper than experience. It's beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It's an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception.

Politics isn't lying. It's the art of knowing who's lying.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

We're obviously in a strange environment where practically anyone can set themselves up as a pundit of sorts. It's all about sorting the wheat from the chaff, and I'm very interested in reading different points of view, and certainly different generations than my own that have such a very different world view.

So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.

I know, when I was growing up, a lot of the views I was listening to, it was a worldview that was not helpful. The world even sold me a false idea of what the good life was, and I wish that people would have helped me to think better about how to interact with that worldview.

I listen to everything that comes in. I'm not real worried about demo sound quality. I can hear through that sort of thing. If a band can play, then they can play.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.