Quotes About Discernment

I don't really spend money like crazy. I buy what I need and what I really want, and if I'm buying expensive things I do think about the purchase many times before I buy it.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

I have one talent, and that's figuring out what people want about two minutes before they know it themselves.

The man patrolling his prejudices never sleeps.

It's the game of seeing all but reacting to nothing. Until necessity forces the issue.

Kruppe is wise – wise enough to keep silent when silence is called for, and yet wiser still to speak when wise words are required. Wisdom, after all, is Kruppe's blood brother.

There are always two or more sides to an issue, so don't accept any information at face value. Instead, be willing to hear all sides of the story. Take the time to explore both pro and counter–cult sites. Then you can develop your own, informed opinions.

Reality Testing—the ability to see things as they actually are, rather than the way you wish or fear they might be;

It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth, you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back.

The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what's important first.

The tasted keep their secrets.

Blood, flesh: what were these? Coarse, brutish victuals, the things that dogs ate. With his more refined palate, Peveral Othman could imbibe a more subtle substance.

If he were straining at the leash, eager to become the True King, then, paradoxically, he would not be the right candidate. We must woo him carefully.

The Pelleth were too eager to have Daniel in their ranks, and although Meggie and Betsy cleverly disguised their fervour, Emma could sense it behind their words, boiling away like a kettle on the old black range.

Don't fall for the glamour, beloved. We need our wits about us today.

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

One of the hallmarks of the Trump era is the alacrity with which intelligent people embrace stupidity.

Most people talk too much, and what they do say is often just noise or irrelevant gibberish designed to keep themselves entertained

At every turn, give five good reasons for saying no.

And it dawned on me that one way to find out if someone is trustworthy is to read her a passage from one of your favorite books and see how she reacts.

Pausing gives us the opportunity to arrive at an internal place from which we can choose wisely what needs to be done or said, and then do so gently.

You should only speak when you have something worth saying.

One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.