Quotes About Discernment

the danger comes when we allow the good we have found in someone to blind us to their darker side

The language of love and the language of seduction are the same. The one who wishes a girl for a wife and the one who wishes her for only a night both say the words, "I love you." Jesus has told us to discern between the language of seduction and the language of love, and to know the wolves clad in sheepskin from the real sheep.

When you're talking, Steve," Jock MacKenzie had told him once, "and I don't care who it's to or what it's about, the important thing is knowing when to stop. Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

How do you know if a demon is lying? His lips are moving.

Just because we want something doesn't mean it's right

Esta es la única prueba real del liderazgo: ¿Es evidente el Espíritu de Dios en tu vida? Si no lo es, entonces no eres una persona a la que haya que seguir. El

Use your ears more than your mouth.

I can see you is not born last week.

Gli uomini non sono sempre così furbi come vorrebbero far credere. Te ne accorgerai quando sarai più grande, figlia mia.

Great artists know that it isn't just about what you add; sometimes the most important work is knowing what to take away. Removing clutter, excess, all the superfluous elements—and finding out in the process what's been in there the whole time.

first-class noticer"—cultivating the ability to attend to what others overlook, experiencing "enchanting reality" as a new and fortuitous gift—is crucial to any creative process.

While Lyndon Johnson was not, as his two assistants knew, a reader of books, he was, they knew, a reader of men— a great reader of men.

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n iÅŸine burnunu sokmamak insan?n sahip olabileceÄŸi bilgeliÄŸin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli deÄŸildir zaten.

My old man taught me two things: 'Mind own business' and 'Always cut cards'.

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget—but the nuggets

Don't 'Father' me! I can tell a hawk from a handsaw. Anybody can, Grandmother Hazel commented. The Hawk class is a purely commercial type while the Hanshaw runabout is a sport job. Come to think about it, boys, a Hanshaw might be better than a Douglas.

I don't know. I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth—then shut up. It

When will I learn? Had Boss wished to disclose the method, he would have told me. "Careless slips sink ships." Not around Boss.)

Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

The Irish proverb quoted at the beginning — If you see a two-headed pig, keep your mouth shut — contains profound pragmatic wisdom. Maybe most people are shrewd enough to understand that, and the reports that get into books like this are a small, very small, cross-section of the Chaos that is actually going on around us. Maybe.

A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear: change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? - King Lear