Quotes About Discernment

Les gens de qualité savent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris. People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

me. (Sometimes it's not good to reveal everything that God tells you, unless you are prepared to go through an awful period of criticism and unbelief until it comes to pass.)

Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?

The foolish man thinks cats can only have cat food. The wise man knows they are allowed a little salami.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Faites connaître vos décisions, jamais vos raisons. Vos décisions peuvent être bonnes, vos raisons seront certainement mauvaises.

Spend your eyesight wisely.

All my decisions are hidden in my choices.

Before giving an answer, you must first understand the question. When the question is not clear, the answer will also follow the same path.

We ought to understand the personalities and motives of an individual before we come to judge him.

You have to go beyond ordinary people in order to understand and apply the concept of common sense.

Los ojos que miran son muy comunes, pero los ojos que ven son muy raros".

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

Scripture trains us to listen to and learn from stories of all kinds, inside the sacred text and outside, and to discern patterns and meanings within them. Stories of all sorts form and shape the character of those who read them. We live within the narrative as creatures in search of an ending, in search of happiness.

People who have been starved of water for a long time will drink anything, even if it is polluted.

The voice of Satan is often hard to recognise precisely because it appears so frequently as the voice of common sense, of prudence, of reason.

don't believe everything you read about the Rapture. In fact, don't believe most of what you read about the Rapture.

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

Learn to distinguish what should be done and what not; The clever soul will always select his opportunity.

if an astronomer calculates from the sky he will ascertain the paths of the moon and the stars; but in his house the womenfolk are at variance, and he does not perceive their various misconduct.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.