Quotes About Discernment

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

All truth is not to be told at all times.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

Love is not something you want to fall into, love is something you want to step intelligently into. If your loved one doesn't love the Lord than don't set your heart to it. It's not worth it.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.

To copy faults is want of sense.

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

Be as soft as possible, if something good and wise wants to shape you; be as hard as possible, if something bad and foolish wants to shape you!

It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

One of the most important pieces of equipment, for the photographer who really wants to improve, is a great big wastepaper basket.

We have to ask ourselves, 'Am I really trying to discern God's will, or determine whether I want to do it?'

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

I sincerely want to meet the girl that was meant for me, but I want to sleep with the girls that weren't.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't.

I'm trying to be a little bit more mature about my choices and think about what I want to direct next, instead of just jumping into a movie 'cause I want to do it.