Quotes About Discernment

I trust you to find the good in me, but the bad I must be sure you don't overlook.

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest. By the very act of listening to one rather than to others we have already prejudged the case.

I am fond of children — except boys.

We can't do every good thing there is to do in the world. Too many Christians live under the terror of total obligation, thinking every act of injustice, every opportunity of ministry, and every urgent appeal are our responsibilities.

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.

The idea of taking what's useful and discarding the rest is something I say to myself almost on a daily basis.

Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.

Comparing and contrasting is a valuable human skill - and not just during high school English exams. Our ability to rank-order things is invaluable in making choices and setting priorities.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Does this God of yours speak with you often?" "No. But he makes his will known. His Holy Spirit moves among us. I'm practicing listening and hearing and obeying.

Codebreakers train themselves to see more deeply.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth," he said, with annoying clarity.

Those that see to much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

Taste is a matter of taste.

Remember rule number one - stick to the truth, but don't volunteer anything... What's rule number two? See rule number one.

No se debe confundir la verdad con la opinión de la mayoría.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.