Quotes About Discernment

Whether you're president or speaker, if you're wrong, we need to stand up and point it out. That's what Martin Luther King had talked about: being judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin. So some of us pounded away on some of the ridiculous policies of Pelosi - and lo and behold, over time, the public began to see.

That's a big thing in my life: going with your gut. If something isn't lighting the fire and making you excited, or if something feels wrong or doesn't agree with you, it should be questioned. It should be talked about.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Run for the door if a guy has too much gel in his hair and is too tan and it's not even summer.

I would rather have to extract information from the devil himself than from a child.

Sorting out which prejudices are to be criticized or rejected is not the beginning point of inquiry, but an end product, an achievement of inquiry.

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Thomas à Kempis writes, "It is easier to be silent altogether than to speak with moderation."4

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy. Actually

God wants us to be present where we are. He invites us to see and to hear what is around us and, through it all, to discern the footprints of the Holy.

You must not, however, be controlled by the absurd political clichés and propaganda fed us today. Actually, newspapers are generally far too shallow and slanted to be of much help. We would do well to hold the events of our time before God and ask for prophetic insight to discern where these things lead. Further, we should ask for guidance for anything we personally should be doing to be salt and light in our decaying and dark world.

The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.

The human eye is a wonderful device. With a little effort, it can fail to see even the most glaring injustice.

Avoid hard work. Don't push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

The first and most obvious understanding of education comes from the fact that anyone who can not tell Reason from rubbish is not yet in a condition to know that he can not tell Reason from rubbish, a disability, which, you would suppose, can hardly be one of those put forth as education. But it is.

One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both

Yes, emotions may be authentic, and authenticity is a modern virtue, but one can be authentic without being unnecessarily revealing.