Quotes About Discernment

When you are unsure whether or not something is wrong, ask yourself these questions: Does this glorify God? Can I offer a prayer of thanksgiving for it? Does it draw me closer to Christ, or does it make me preoccupied with this world? Will it harm my health or hurt me in some other way? Will it cause someone else to stumble spiritually or morally? I have never forgotten what a wise Christian said to me many years ago: "When in doubt—don't!

Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.

We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is "don't do it.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

An uninterested spectator sees nothing; or, what is worse, sees wrongly.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Beware of those that fall at your feet, they may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

Only a foolish dog barks at a flying bird.

I think people are smart enough to sort it out. They know when they're watching one of these food fight shows where journalists sit around and yell and scream at each other, versus serious issue reporting.

Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

Proverbs 20:6:

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Perhaps the single greatest thing I learned from reading the Book of Mormon is that the voice of the Spirit comes as a feeling rather than a sound. You will learn, as I have learned, to "listen" for that voice that is felt rather than heard.

I often ask the Lord for direction from Him. I will not, however, willingly accept promptings from any unworthy source. I refuse them. I do not want them, and I say so.

The egalitarianism that is the most offensive is the notion, whether embodied in opinion or law, that every way of behaving is as good as any other and that the man who stands apart by reason of his dignity, restraint, and discernment is somehow an Enemy of the People

He embraces the truth. A lot of people talk about the truth, but they don't engage their decision-making around the best truth at the time.

Always better to be cautious. Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. Shane

You show me someone who'll eat lima beans without being at gunpoint, I'll show you a pervert!

Some people take no mental exercise apart from jumping to conclusions.

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

1) He must be competent, (2) he must exercise good judgment, and (3) he must have character.