Quotes About Discernment

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said?

Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurrence?

Never let your common sense become so prominent and forceful that it pushes the Son of God to one side. Common sense is a gift that God gave to our human nature—but common sense is not the gift of His Son. Supernatural sense is the gift of His Son, and we should never put our common sense on the throne.

If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, He will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never reason it out and say—"I wonder why I shouldn't?" God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense, and we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually saying—"Now, Lord, what is Thy will?

never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.

Is this the kind of thing in which Jesus Christ is interested, or is it something in which the spirit that is diametrically opposed to Jesus is interested?

At first, Jesus Christ through His Spirit has to restrain you from doing a great many things that may be perfectly right for everyone else but not right for you. Yet, see that you don't use your restrictions to criticize someone else.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone

Experience is an excellent spyglass; but it has this drawback, that Prejudice very often clouds the lens.

Mármost ha az a helyzet, hogy mindenki tök, csak mi állunk a vártán ragyogón, okosan, mint a nap, akkor azért érdemes gyanút fogni.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

Let reason alone decide

Lord. Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial:

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn't a hallway?

Some people need to shut their mouths in order to use their brains

High emotional intelligence is like being able to read someone's mind.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

There's always choices, pup, but from what I hear, ye made the right one.

The attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.