Quotes About Discernment

So what does it mean for a person to devote himself or herself to, as you put it, "literary reading and thinking"? I would argue this is a person who's trying to see things for what they are. Who's interested in distinguishing the truth from the lies, the real from the fake, the solid from the cheap. Those are the people who want to think for themselves, and I really question whether we can make good lives for ourselves if we aren't doing our own thinking.

The devil appeared to a monk disguised as an angel of light, and said to him, 'I am the angel Gabriel, and I have been sent to you.' But the monk said, 'Are you sure you weren't sent to someone else? I am not worthy to have an angel sent to me.' At that the devil vanished.

Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.

Many folk are clever, lord Uhtred, but very few are wise.

Choose your battles," I snarled at Æthelstan. "That space between your ears was given so that you can think! If you just charge whenever you see an enemy you'll earn yourself an early grave.

You take me for a fool, Douglas?" "I take you as you show yourself, John Randolph

That's the women's real gift, to be wise, and not many men have it.

Instinct is a strange thing. You cannot touch it, feel it, smell it, or hear it, but you must trust it.

Many of us don't distinguish between the acts of listening and hearing. It's

My advice to anyone who wishes to write is to know all the very best literature by heart, and ignore the rest as completely as possible.

Our system of education turns young people out of the schools able to read, but for the most part unable to weigh evidence or to form an independent opinion. They are then assailed, throughout the rest of their lives, by statements designed to make them believe all sorts of absurd propositions, such as that Blank's pills cure all ills, that Spitzbergen is warm and fertile, and that Germans eat corpses.

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When you are trying to discern whether God or Satan is the author of a hardship, one of your best clues is whether sin is involved. God never entices us to sin, nor does he employ sin or perversion as a means of molding us into the image of Christ. Impossible!

The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).

Be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to determine if they are from God. 1 John 4:1

Wisdom is the focus of the perceptive, but a fool's eyes roam to the ends of the earth. Proverbs 17:24

The fruit of the light results in all goodness, righteousness, and truth— discerning what is pleasing to the Lord. Ephesians 5:9–10

All the enemy has to do to spread a lie is to twist the truth. Stay alert and open-minded. His Word is alive!

Misunderstandings can often result as we exercise enough faith to do what we're convinced is God's will.

I used to pray that God would surround them with people who were good influences. When my eyes began to open, I realized my prayers better adjust to greater reality. The truth is, godly influences are few. I pray for them to know what to do with bad influences and hope they become the good influences!

Let's be careful, though, that we don't err in the opposite extreme of faithless caution. A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants. The latter is our goal.

The fact that a need exists does not mean God has called me to meet that need.

One of the biggest things you have is your reputation and your reputation with knowing what's good and what's not good.