Quotes About Discernment

One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good that he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: when you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

you when you're right and tells you when you're

IN WORKING WITH MIRRORS IT IS NECESSARY TO RECAPITULATE YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, FROM THE PRESENT MOMENT RIGHT BACK TO THE MOMENT OF BIRTH. SUCH A RECAPITULATION DEMANDS A LEVEL OF HONESTY WHICH IS ONLY ATTAINABLE THROUGH AN ACT OF RUTHLESSNESS. RUTHLESSNESS MUST BEGIN WITH YOURSELF. ONLY WHEN RUTHLESSNESS HAS REPLACED SELF-PITY CAN YOU ACHIEVE THE SOBRIETY NEEDED IN ORDER TO DISCRIMINATE WITH WISDOM.

A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

Careful what you tell people.

Nobody needs to be described as silly: let your analysis show that he is.

To address a judicious remark to a thoughtless man is a mere threshing of chaff.

Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

The choice for Gillray, as for all persons of good sense, was never between perfection and hell on earth, but always between better and worse.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

90% of everything is crap.

Praying Together as a Family for the Church One of the many lessons I learned from Bob was to bring my family together to pray for my church. Following Bob's leadership, I would learn to pray for the leadership of the church in a number of ways: For spiritual protection. For protection from moral failure. For the preaching of the Word. For their families. For encouragement. For physical strength. For courage. For discernment. For wisdom in their leadership.

Of two evils we must always choose the least.

Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.

Not every desire is from the Holy Spirit, even though it may seem right and good.

We must not trust every word of others or feeling within ourselves, but cautiously and patiently try the matter, whether it be of God.

Ask not, who hath said this or that, but look to what he says.

He who interprets doubtful matters for the best, may happen to be deceived more often than not; yet it is better to err frequently through thinking well of a wicked man, than to err less frequently through having an evil opinion of a good man, because in the latter case an injury is inflicted, but not in the former.