Quotes About Discernment

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

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

If you want to determine if your thoughts are from the enemy or from God, ask yourself, 'Are these thoughts I'd choose to have?

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

When I have a problem I pray about it and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

No matter how lovesick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along!

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.

There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

We choose between descriptions of options, rather than between the options themselves.