Quotes About Discernment

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

The plain rule is, to do nothing in the dark, to be party to nothing under-handed or mysterious, and never to put his foot down where he cannot see ground.

Bless the bright eyes of your sex! They never see, whether for good or bad, more than one side of any question; and that is always, the one which first presents itself to them.

my first impression of those people, founded on face and manner alone, was invariably true. My mistake was in suffering them to come nearer to me and explain themselves away.

You shall read them, if you behave well,' said the old gentleman kindly; 'and you will like that, better than looking at the outsides,--that is, in some cases; because there are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Why, then, you are not to see anywhere, what you don't see in fact; you are not to have anywhere, what you don't have in fact. What is called Taste, is only another name for Fact.

that the plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

The Bible admonishes us to live each day fully—not living in the past or the future. But God never intends for us to walk blindly from day to day. He expects us to discern what He is doing and what He desires. He intends for us to have a capacity to see beneath the surface of life and to expose and analyze the unseen.

Discernment is the ability to judge a situation accurately—to see the full reality of a situation, relationship, experience, or circumstance. It is the capacity to understand accurately and clearly what is, to see the truth of things as they are from God's viewpoint.

Therefore, the best way to know His voice is to get to know Him. Spend time in His Word and immerse yourself in His truth. Because as you do, you'll be able to differentiate God's direction from the messages the world, the enemy, or your flesh are sending you. You will know His voice, and He will certainly lead you well.

However, since Scripture teaches that all believers, young and old, should clearly be able to discern the voice of God, it's important for you to stop talking at times and just listen to Him. Grow still and quiet. Open His Word and learn to identify how He speaks. You will, eventually, recognize His voice and know exactly what to do.

La reacción sabia ante la desilusión debe ser siempre la de preguntarle a Dios qué es lo que nos está tratando de enseñar, y entonces responder ante las amarguras con más discernimiento acerca de sus planes y propósitos.

The person who has built his house upon the Rock and has built his life out of the substance of God's Word has a peace that sustains him through difficulties, heartaches, and trials. He has the capacity to enjoy the pleasures of life, and he knows the pleasures are genuine. Some things the world offers as pleasure bring only pain. He can discern what is good for him and what is not; what has lasting value and what does not; and what brings true pleasure and what does not.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

Life is a neverending series of judgment calls.

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

I eat bad poetry like a goat — and eat good poetry like a gourmand.

To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion — a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. One may have that condition by fits only.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.