Quotes About Discernment

One should be able to say anything to a close friend, he reflected, and yet part of friendship was knowing what not to say and when not to say it

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

It seems to me that life is about figuring out which things should be discarded and which things should be kept and put in their rightful place.

Today many Christians are blind to the truth about the dangers of darkness and go about entertaining the demonic.

The truth is so rare, Alex. I like to use it sparingly

A native friend of mine writes: It can be hard to tell true Guidance from your own ego in disguise. True Guidance is subtle and can be overshadowed by our own wishful thinking. So Guidance is most trustworthy when what it tells you is something you don't want to do, or at least something you would never have thought of yourself. Guidance is most questionable when it matches what you do want to do.

Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously put you off the activity altogether.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truths from its errors.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

There were many times when truth spoke to me, but I did not listen. Often it called to me, but I did not hear it. I was too busy listening to lies. Unfortunately, if you listen to lies long enough, when truth speaks you cannot hear or bear it.

girls know when they're stepping over a boundary and find it strange when adults seem not to notice.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do it, or you see them doing something the way you don't want to do it.

We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom.

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

I have multiple ideas per day, all the time. The vast majority of these are completely idiotic. Usually, I just sit on the idea for several months. And if I have not decided that it's idiotic, then it's... might be a good idea.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

Perhaps it's appallingly written, boring, without merit and unworthy of our time, but at least let us be the judge of that.

women are often blessed with more common sense than men.

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I'm 67 years old. it took me a long time to grow up to know that almost everything we hear is not true.

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet.

There's a time to talk and a time for silence.