Quotes About Discernment

Listen to your instincts: if your gut says that there's something wrong - there is!

Life is full of fake people, before you decide to judge them, make sure you are not one of them.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Many people don't see what's obvious.

We must avoid letting our emotions override common sense.

We all should choose our friends carefully. I used to think that no one could know me better than somebody else, because you're inside yourself, your body, you can't see yourself. If you think like that, you surround yourself with other people who ar

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Experience will help you differentiate what's Right and what's Wrong. And will help you prevent committing mistakes.

By gaining self-knowledge we gain the ability to know when to press hard and when to pull back. Self-knowledge informs us of our limits.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

The art of pleasing is to know what people want even before they want it.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

It is possible to drown in information... and die for lack of wisdom.

Oh, I can't tell you too much Arthur. Just

Prayer must be in alignment with the will of God or it's null and void... It it's not God's will, you're not going to get whatever you ask for. God loves you far too much to spoil you in that way. But if it is God's will, God will make a way.

God does not answer vague prayers.

We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.

We are living in a time where the hearing from God is bombarded by many frequencies and voices. This noise, corrosive in nature, makes it difficult to hear God's voice...living with more noise means we live less like a disciple. We need a prism. Eric Samuel Timm is a prism.

the purpose of prayer is not to get what you want; the goal of prayer is to discern what God wants

And it's often what we want to hear least that we need to hear most. Trust me, though, you want to hear what He has to say.