Quotes About Discernment

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

I once began to ask around what constitutes a good poem. It felt petty, in a sense. A boy would need no help in deciding which girls he thinks are pretty.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

What is worse than having no sight is being able to see but having no vision.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Great men never require experience.

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

If you can't see someone's got a game with great personality, you shouldn't be out there looking.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

In order to be a great writer a person must have a built-in, shockproof crap detector.

How true it is that without the guidance of the Holy Spirit intellect not only is undependable but also extremely dangerous, because it often confuses the issue of right and wrong.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.

Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy.

How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see

Recognizing poor leadership is a vital skill to help you achieve greatness.

Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who misread the signs.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising