Quotes About Discernment

He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality.

Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses. He saw people through their physical and intellectual shortcomings, or through oddities in the way they talked or dressed.

People are far too quick to judge others, especially when they don't have the full facts. --from the book For Reasons Unknown

the most dangerous lie is the lie that resembles the truth". Michael Youssef

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

And in the midst of that calling, God then called me to run for the United States Congress. And I thought, "What in the world would that be for?" And my husband said, "You need to do this." And I wasn't so sure. And we took three days, and we fasted and we prayed. And we said "Lord, is this what you want, are you sure? Is this your will?" And after, along about the afternoon of day two, He made that calling sure.

Do not assume a role you have not been given. In other words, don't do the things a wife does until you are a wife. Be a friend until he carries you over the threshold.

patience is the weapon that forces deception to reveal itself. It is the insurance against being deceived or making wrong decisions. Some things can only be made known by waiting. God takes his time.

So often women enter into love covenants with those who come disguised as Mr. Right. Like the men of Israel who never took the time to look beyond the surface, some women hear words and romantic gestures and take them at face value, without inquiring of the Lord.

being involved with you requires a high cost, you will be able to sift the wrong people out of your life.

It was an empowering thing, she thought, to be able to pick and choose what and whom she allowed in her life.

Old folk sure had a way of pointing out the obvious.

It's easy to judge only on the superficial. It takes a lot more time and work to truly understand.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By a small sample we may judge of the whole piece.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.

I can see with half an eye.

Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things a time for great things, and a time for small things.

En el mundo —le dijo Mamá, y el cigarrillo se movía a compás de sus labios como si fuera un apéndice propio— hay personas absorbentes, que creen que sólo lo suyo merece respeto. Huye de ellas, Quico, como de la peste.

Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.

A fi cum spui, badica, dar cel ce spune multe stie putine.

One does not get to be a man by getting married, by having sex: to be a man means to be responsible, to know when it is time to speak, to know what has to be said, to know when one must stay silent.

Developing a discriminating palate, like any other skill, requires the investment of psychic energy. But the energy invested is returned many times over in a more complex experience. The

At Linus Pauling's sixtieth birthday celebration, a student asked him, "Dr. Pauling, how does one go about having good ideas?" He replied, "You have a lot of ideas and throw away the bad ones.