Quotes About Discernment

If you want to hear His comforting voice, you have to listen to His convicting voice.

Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.

we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.

What kind of deception could deceive even the very elect?

True wisdom is the ability to see things as they really are. This is a gift the ring cannot bequeath. What wisdom Frodo has must come from a different source

to discriminate between the real and artificial is the beginning of wisdom;

A clear vision is as much about what you are not going to do as it is about what you are going to do.

Remember the three-brain model I talked about earlier—mammal brain on top of reptile brain and human brain on top of mammal brain, with each one building on the one that came earlier in evolution? The instant judgments we make about people are similar, because they too build on the past. That doesn't mean they're entirely wrong. (In fact, an initial "gut instinct" is often spot-on.) But it means they're not entirely right, either.

before you tackle the bruising challenge of talking to "crazy," make sure you have a good reason to go there.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." —GEORGE WASHINGTON

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion—"In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know

The world is exactly as it appears, if only you look hard enough.

Am I really a person who lives by faith? God can surely tell the difference between someone who walks in darkness and someone who walks with her eyes shut. Which am I?

We think, "Hey. The Bible is holy, so quoting it must make my choices correct." But someone else tried that tactic before. Yeah. His name was Satan.

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

There is a number missing. I can see it.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.