Quotes About Discernment

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

I'm pretty conservative. I believe that buying good quality is a good investment. I buy fewer things but of better quality.

For me, all collecting must be done out of the love of the art. That being said, investment knowledge is absolutely mandatory so that you are really buying what you think you are buying.

I never invite idiots to my house.

I'll be very careful about what kind of energy I'm inviting into my life and whether it's going to be helpful for me or help me evolve as a person.

Based on 30 years of experience with the Iranians, they will give you 100 words. Trust only one of the 100.

The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

When you go to jail you know who real and who ain't.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

I'm not defining Christians as Jews or Jews as Christians or zebras as elephants.

I can like Jack Nicolson's Joker, and I can like Heath Ledger's Joker. There's other Jokers I don't have to like.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.

PrawdÄ™ Å'atwiej wyÅ'owi? z bÅ'Ä™dów ni? z zamÄ™tu.

There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.

It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and see the ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth, and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.

All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

Christian freedom is found in relationship to Christ himself, not in autonomy or individual independence. Identifying the sources of enslavement today is part of the discernment of spirits which marks our quest for holiness.

Seeing is a vigorous, pattern-seeking process.

If we do not move in divine forgiveness, we will walk in much deception. We will presume we have discernment when, in truth, we are seeing through the veil of a "critical spirit." We must know our weaknesses, for if we are blind to our sins, what we assume we discern in men will merely be the reflection of ourselves. Indeed, if we do not move in love, we will actually become a menace to the body of Christ.

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Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.