Quotes About Discernment

I learned a lot about acting - watching not just myself but other actors and learning how to distinguish between two great takes. It's also about one's own taste in performance.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.

There's so much to learn and so much of it not worth learning.

We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

Alcohol made it hard to tell a demon from a monster.

Never be tricked by the small print! It's right there in front of you, right there in front of you, and you can't even see it and then suddenly it makes you notice it! And I tell you, once you've seen it it's got you!

There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *

Can you not distinguish truth from fiction? Or were you never taught the difference?

our ability to accurately discern who is taking advantage of us is remarkably poor.

although most people believe they can reliably discern when they are being lied to, the evidence suggests that they can't.

The girls may have only been ages six to eight, but they could spot a hottie when they saw one.

We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

Learning to discern what is eternal and what is simply a product of our own context is actually harder work than accepting any interpretation on its face.

What does this season require of you? Unsure? Ask God. He is a wonderful advisor who always, always knows the Best Thing. He will help you sort it out. When you can't trust your own discernment, you can certainly trust His. God has no agenda other than your highest good in His kingdom. There is no better leader through this minefield.

We are only qualified to administer mercy, not judgment, because we will pull up many a beautiful stalk of wheat, imagining him a weed.

When Jesus' followers asked what to do about the weeds in the harvest field, He said to treat them the same as the wheat, 'because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them' (Matthew 13:29)... We are only qualified to administer mercy, not judgment, because we will pull up many a beautiful stalk of wheat, imagining him a weed.

An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.

I need a boy who thinks with his big head, not his little one. Since they do not exist, I have fashioned my own.

Lots of things are true. Doesn't mean you have to go around saying them.