Quotes About Discernment

The will of God is exactly what we would do if we knew all the facts.

The Bible is the best and most important tool in discerning direction from God.

I do believe that at times God opens some doors and closes others, but our mistake is to confuse an open door for an easy door

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?

God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

I hear God as an audible voice.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons

Feel it in thy heart and then say whether it is of God!

I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.

With every movie, we will spend a season of prayer just asking God what's on his heart, and we spent about a year, two years, in prayer, trying to figure out the direction for the next film.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

There is a difference between God as a sense of comfort, and God actually telling you what to do!

When I pray, I pray believing that God will speak to me and give me an answer to that prayer. That's what a calling is. If I pray, a calling means that I feel like I have a sense from God.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.

Conscience tells us that we ought to do right, but it does not tell us what right is - that we are taught by God's word.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

God does have a specific plan for our lives, but it is not one that He expects us to figure out before we make a decision.

You must know the thoughts of God, in order to start taking right actions

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Tolerance once meant that we could use our reason to discern good and evil in open debate. Today tolerance has been used to call good evil and evil good.