Quotes About Discernment

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

Only some things are worth doing well. Most things that are worth doing are only worth doing sloppily. Many things aren't worth doing at all. Anything not worth doing at all is certainly not worth doing well.

We don't get to choose what truths God reveals to us -- but we do get to choose what we do with the truths -- whom we share it with and how.

When in doubt, shut up.

It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.

Yeah, I don't have a Yale degree but my bullshit detector is excellent. Top drawer, even.

When people show you who they are, it is your job to pay attention.

You give it your all, Beck. You just have to be more careful about who you give it to.

We view men's gifts as vital to the church. In contrast, we caution women to exercise their gifts discreetly to avoid causing problems or trespassing some invisible line — which changes location from church to church, sometimes even within the same denomination.

Take care of your common sense, and your dignity will take care of itsself

And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.)

You must admit you have self-control before you can use it.

We are training our minds to see the subtle shapes in the visual world around us. Shade

Giving your heart away before you are certain of a man's character and commitment is dangerous. You must discern his true intentions, or you'll pay a high price.

I know this is difficult, Maggie, but listen to me. There's more to waiting than just biding our time. Our job is to pray and trust the Lord to reveal what's hidden and bring the full truth to light.

Human beings are afflicted by a need to judge.

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)

Yet economics purports to be strangely exempt from this fact of life. From Adam Smith's day to our own, the chief concern of the discipline has been to render economic events unsurprising...The discernment of orderly rules governing the apparent chaos of life was a remarkable achievement and continues to amaze.

I can recognize any one by the teeth, with whom I have talked. I always watch the lips and mouth: they tell what the tongue and eyes try to conceal. [at the funeral of Percy Bysshe Shelley, according to E.J. Trelawny]

The only way to get everything you want in life is to be very clever about what you want.

People who were raised on The Bible can never tell the difference between a warning and an advertisement.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.