Quotes About Discernment

Great success often depends upon being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

But the mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones." The

information is worthless unless we use it to make judgments.

Too many of us," she said, "take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes. Wouldn't you say?

Therefore, we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives. For me, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback.

we need to be selective about the feedback we let into our lives.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

From that moment on, no Christian can ever say one form of prayer is as good as another or one religion is as good as another.

Impressions form images that become fixed ideas that give birth to prejudices. Anthony De Mello said, "If you are prejudiced, you will see that person from the eye of that prejudice. In other words, you will cease to see this person as a person."[12] The pharisee within spends most of his time reacting to labels, his own and others'.

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Those who have eyes see little .

My favorite quotes; "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof shit detector." - Ernst Hemingway. "We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master." Ernest Hemingway

The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.

Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde.

Exhaustion, burnout, and depression are not signs that you are doing God's will. God is gentle and loving. God desires to give you a deep sense of safety in God's love. Once you have allowed yourself to experience that love fully, you will be better able to discern who you are being sent to in God's name.

The Christian leader cannot simply be persons who have well informed opinions about the burning issues of our time.

God wants to bring joy not pain, peace not war, healing not suffering. Therefore, instead of declaring anything and everything to be the will of God, we must be willing to ask ourselves where in the midst of our pains and sufferings we can discern the loving presence of God.

Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God's active presence, and to obey God's prompting, direction, leadings, and guidance.

El discernimiento es una disciplina y una práctica que nos invita a cultivar la confianza, el amor, la fe, la esperanza, y el coraje.

Your unique presence in your community is the way God wants you to be present to others. Different people have different ways of being present. You have to know and claim your way. That is why discernment is so important. Once you have an inner knowledge of your true vocation, you have a point of orientation. That will help you decide what to do and what to let go of, what to say and what to remain silent about, when to go out and when to stay home, who to be with and who to avoid.

Community thus is obedience practiced together. The question is not simply, "Where does God lead me as an individual person who tries to do his will?" More basic and more significant is the question, "Where does God lead us as a people?" This

when we listen to the Spirit, we hear a deeper sound, a different beat. ...Living a spiritually mature life requires listening to God's voice within and among us.

Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, Jesus did not want to entrust himself to them because he knew what was in every heart (John 2:24). Such intuitive and perceptive knowledge is the nature of discernment.