Quotes About Discernment

Pragnij, by twój puchar byÅ' peÅ'ny, chÅ'opcze, i nie zadowalaj siÄ™ wszystkim, co ci bÄ™dÄ… mówi?, lecz ufaj bardziej swoim bystrym oczom.

Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be answerable for the body and blood of the Lord. Examine yourselves, and only then eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For all who eat and drink without discerning the body, eat and drink judgment against themselves. (1 Corinthians 11:27-29)

As kingdom workers, our job is to learn to discern the season of each person's soul.

If you are trying to figure out if something is God's call on your life, ask these questions: Who would this be helping? What good is it?

La sabiduría es la habilidad para interpretar una situación a través de los ojos de Dios.

We agreed that our own ideas and expectations tended to make us deaf to hearing God's will. We needed, at least at times, to just lay them down and listen. Leave the next move entirely up to God.

You shouldn't believe everything you read on the Internet, especially from sites that can be edited by anyone with a working email address.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Even if there were hundred bad Japanese, if there was one good one, he refused to make a blanket statement

choose the important over the urgent.

It was always better to say less.

My mother passed away in 2011. She was a warm and sociable person, but she did not suffer fools. In fact, that policy extended beyond fools. She did not suffer lazy people, pretentious people, liars, the sloppy, or the inarticulate. Basically she suffered very few people, and it was hard to earn her respect. But

We ought to have a sensory organ that can tell sign from coincidence.

Garbage in, garbage out~

Jedina stvarala?ka stvarnost jesu isklju?ivo prvotna oskvrnu?a naših osjetila: ?ovjek vidi samo onda kad je nešto ugledao.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

D iscerning God's will is not an experience of warm and fuzzy feelings. Rather, it means recognizing and choosing things that are good in themselves and are the good things that God wants us to do. In our discernment process, we need balance, and we can achieve this by integrating our intellect, our will, and our emotions into our prayer and discernment. All three are necessary to discern God's will properly. Each one in isolation can be inadequate for the task.

What is the process of discernment of God's will? Interior, personal discernment depends absolutely on those objective first principles, but in our relationship with God, discernment definitely takes a very subjective turn. We move from knowing those extremely important things about God to a personal level of knowing and loving God.

One aspect of developing spiritually is to learn how to distinguish our compulsive behavior, sins, emotional desires, drives, and inner movements from the peace that comes from God. Familiarity with God's gift of "peace that surpasses understanding" (Philippians 4:7) makes it possible to discern God's leading from our own inclinations, since what is not from God cannot convey a peace that lasts.

First and foremost in this struggle, we need an authentic prayer life that deepens our relationship with God and reconciles us to him. We must also have a desire to choose for our lives whatever gives the greater glory to God, which requires that we be "equal-minded"—happy with whatever good option that we discern our Lord most wants for our lives.

What is good, and what is evil? Where do you draw the line between the two?" Now Yuriko was getting a little upset. I'm just in fifth grade, you know. They haven't taught us difficult things like that yet. "There

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

Men ska man vara finklädd för att smaka ett päron? En barfotaunge har också smak i munnen.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.