Quotes About Discernment

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Our judgements judge us; and nothing reveals us [or] exposes our weaknesses more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

Part of growing up is developing a bullshit detector, and kids usually do a pretty fair job of wising each other up.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

a veces ya no sé distinguir lo que es verdad de lo que no lo es.

We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

I now know that God has a plan for each of us. The thing is to find out what it is." How? Through prayer, through keeping your mind open, and trough the circumstances of daily life and the people you meet.

Careful, Sandi. You're about to let your bulldog mouth overload your bird-dog bite.

Matt felt vindicated. See . If he'd rushed things and let his passion get the upper hand he might not have learned whether she like beef.

True prayer intercessors have double vision. They see in the natural and they see in the spirit.

Sometimes," he said, "you've got to watch people a long time to see who they are.

First, we must learn to read the Bible with our heads, in order to understand what is actually, objectively, being said. And second, we must learn to read it with our hearts, in order to experience God's voice through its pages. By carefully studying the Bible, we come to understand what its writers were originally saying. And by prayerfully exploring it, we learn to discern what the Holy Spirit is saying to us now.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.

She's nice enough, but she's got the IQ of an artichoke.

There are prophets, there are guides, and there are argumentative people with theories, and one must be careful to discriminate between them.

When it comes to learning, what we choose to do is guided by our judgments of what works and what doesn't, and we are easily misled.

The Bible shows us that obedience to God is not about cutting and pasting the Bible over our lives, but seeking the path of wisdom—holding the sacred book in one hand and ourselves, our communities of faith, and our world in the other in order to discern how the God of old is present here and now.

Doing the best as we can to figure out life, to discern how or if a certain proverb applies right here and now, is not an act of disloyalty toward God, rebellion against God's clear rulebook for life. It is, rather, our sacred responsibility as people of faith.

Reading the situation—not simply the Bible—is what wisdom is all about.

looking for fights—encouraging and even creating controversy thinking that God wills it—is pathological.

She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic, and wondrous in its small self, and not any kind of bullshit. She could detect bullshit from a hillside away. But then she took people at face value and expected the best of them until proven otherwise.

I'm not so sure we're all that good at telling whether something is dead or alive. Maybe we confuse alive with lots of noise, emotion, and zeal.