Quotes About Discernment

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.

Others Are Smarter Than Me But Here's The Difference, I'm Wise....

They aren't capable of doing this... look their thoughts, look how they run, look their faces... So far this tells everything about them, ...(Salem's Lot)

CoMMOn SeNSe iS nOt sO cOmMOn aMoNg coMMon pEOPLe...

You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Today, each time an election rolls around Christians debate whether this or that candidate is "God's man" for the White House. Projecting myself back into Jesus' time, I had difficulty imagining him pondering whether Tiberius, Octavius, or Julius Caesar was "God's man" for the empire.

Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak.

Then as for those who gaze upon many beautiful things but don't see the beautiful itself, and aren't even capable of following someone else who leads them to it, and upon many just things but not the just itself, and all the things like that, we'll claim that they accept the seeming of everything but discern nothing of what they have opinions about.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Never trust what you see on Goodreads.

ha habido razón para decir que hay ciertas opiniones que debemos respetar y otras que debemos despreciar

de dos hombres que caminan juntos, el uno ve lo que el otro no ve».[27]

It is well for one to know more than he says

Since it is difficult to distinguish true prophets from false, it is as well to regard all prophets with suspicion

Le differenze possono essere piccole, ma portare a conseguenze radicalmente diverse, come gli aghi degli scambi; il mestiere del chimico consiste in buona parte nel guardarsi da queste differenze, nel conoscerle da vicino, nel prevederne gli effetti. Non solo il mestiere del chimico.

God's impressions within and His Word without are always corroborated by His providence around, and we should quietly wait until these three focus into one point. … If you do not know what you ought to do, stand still until you do.

Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.

To make a time-sensitive decision, prayerfully consider which option will bring God the most glory and will encourage a more intimate relationship with Him.

But a free woman possesses the God-given ability to know when He is truly asking her to do something—as well as the God-given ability to know when He's not. Then she has the God-given discernment to know her limits and the authority to know when she needs "to cease, to stop, to pause"—accepting the gentle yoke of Jesus instead of the tyrannical yoke of slavery. "For My yoke is easy," He said, "and My burden is light" (Matt. 11:30).

It is a privilege for us to look at circumstances and discern God's involvement in them. To recognize them as more than mere happenstance but rather God's own detailed design and plan. To see that He is allowing us to cooperate with Him in bringing life from death, growth from loss, testimony from tragedy.