Quotes About Discernment

Don't do nothing, just because you can't do everything. pg. 144

Praise: Thank Him for reigning in power and supplying you with the weapons of victory. Repentance: Admit where you've been angry and distracted, fighting all the wrong people. Asking: Ask for courage, for discernment, for patience, for diligence, for laser-like focus. Yes: Because the Lord is with you, and He will fight the real enemy through you.

Creating time, space, and opportunity to hear God is paramount for those of us who desire to sense His Spirit's conviction, to receive His detailed guidance, and to discern His intimate leading. Before

Fools can be trusted precisely because they are fools. Their agendas rarely intersect with your own.

Even here, you can ask the wrong questions and speak the wrong truths, Postulants. Here ends today's lesson. Tota est scientia.

Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?

But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout—you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

Is it PG-13 time?

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

His sense of smell alone brought him more information

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.

If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing an eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no delusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.

All I need to do is open my eyes.

I choose my battles wisely you see Sometimes the fight is just not met to be I pick only the ones I know I can win And all others I just smartly end

She is able to draw the line between who she is and who she is not on every level, so she is able to discriminate without ambivalence—whether it's about a skirt or a man that simply isn't right for her life. It also makes it easy for her to ignore the pressure to be all things to all people, and to appreciate the company of herself—with a book, a glass of wine

I was always decoding. I was hyperalert. Being hyperalert is a lasting thing. Being a watcher. Noticing emotional shirts, infinitesimally small tremors that flit over another person's face, the jab in a seemingly innocuous word, the quickening in a walk, an abrupt gesture - the way, say, a jacket is tossed over a chair.

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

Engullimos de un sorbo la mentira que nos adula y bebemos gota a gota la verdad que nos amarga.

People greatly value knowledge and intelligence, but not wisdom.

I have a simple rule that is of great value in identifying whom to trust: Do not choose friends on the basis of personality, 'chemistry,' or enjoyment alone. Know their character (i.e. their values and whether they act on those values) before you trust them.

You can always use intuition and observation to bring out the truth.

That's simple. You reason with them, and when you're through, I'll take them out and thrash them.