Quotes About Discernment

Not everything the eye sees should be spoken by the mouth.

There is time to do everything God wants me to do. There's not time to do everything. There's not time to do everything good. There's not time to do everything everyone else wants me to do. There's not even time to do everything I want to do. But, because God is God, there must be time to do everything He wants me to do.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

it establishes the speaker as someone who sits in judgment.

No one expects you to act on every piece of advice.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Just as he loved sweet scents and fragrance in general, so also he was exceedingly sensitive to the slightest unpleasantness of odour, especially in the breath, in himself and in others.

Examples of this kind teach us that one should not believe any human being, no matter how saintly he may be, but must pay attention to Him who calls and to His Word.

Each must watch over his own conscience, and therefore each must have the right to judge spirits and prophets; but no one has the right to take the sword for himself.

Let us act wisely, therefore, and in the fear of God.

The truly intelligent person is one who knows when to use logic and when to rely on intuition.

If kids don't take to a person, I always feel they have inside knowledge that we don't have. They suss people out much easier.

People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret.

You mustn't underestimate an audience's intelligence.

Truth leads to Freedom, yet freedom does not necessarily lead to truth.

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

You never realize what a good girl means untill you Know a bad girl .

Hebrews 5:14 "Deception was—and still is—crucial to Satan's strategy.

A True Woman is characterized by right thinking … She is not swayed by every "wind of doctrine" (Eph. 4:14) that comes along. She has a heart for solid biblical teaching and has a growing knowledge of God's Word. She knows how to evaluate what she hears to see if it measures up to Scripture. And she knows how to live her life in a way that "accords with sound doctrine" (Titus 2:1).

Most people—even Christians—have unthinkingly exposed themselves to so much deception that they do not even realize they are being deceived.

The fact is, "wise girls get more" of what really matters for this life and the next!

Intuition guides us and the wise person listens.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Love is like a fruit. It may look good, but you shouldn't bite in it until it's ripe.