Quotes About Discernment

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

In order to come to a conclusion, people use the judging attitude and have to shut off perception for the time being.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

Being composed and being off-guard may look alike, but they are quite different. You should first test this out for yourself.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

For people who are really talented, what you don't say becomes extremely important. You have to judge what to say and what to leave alone so you can let the talent develop.

Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.

the first rule of art is exclusion: knowing what to leave out.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

The Government, Church and television keep the average man so mired in petty concerns that he can no longer discern which battles are worth fighting for.

Eyes that look are common; eyes that see are rare. The

37. On this point, and the whole paragraph, see especially Oliver O'Donovan, The Ways of Judgment (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2005).

Maar sy kyk nie meer nuus nie. Sy lees ook nie meer koerant nie. Reg en verkeerd, waarheid en leuen is strome wat deurmekaar geloop het in een rivier, jy kry dit nie meer uitmekaar geskep nie.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.

judgments in choosing our friends, in choosing how we will spend our time and our money, and, of course, in choosing an eternal companion. Some of these intermediate judgments are surely among those the Savior referenced when he taught that "the weightier matters of the law" include judgment (Matthew 23:23).

Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.

Odadaki file i?aret eden, kral?n ç?plakl???n? gören ki?iydi. (Kurt Vonnegut)

You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can't fool a horse.

According to ayurveda, we become what we surround ourselves with. And so it stands to reason that we have to be discerning about what we surround ourselves with." Steve Cope [p. 85]