Quotes About Discernment

Fiction and fact: only madmen and magistrates cannot discriminate between them.

They were your friends? Yes, they were my friends. And they will leave you to suffer alone? Now I see it. And until this, were they friends you could trust? I could trust them. I see what you mean. You mean they were the kind of friends that a good man could choose, upright, hard-working, obeying the law? Tell me, were they such friends? And now they leave you alone? Did you not see it before? I saw it.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Impatience is the enemy of wisdom; it propels us to jump conclusions, judge and condemn, rather than understand

All things are good and bad only in hindsight

Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions.

The existence of any Christian communal life essentially depends on whether or not it succeeds at the right time in promoting the ability to distinguish between a human ideal and God's reality, between spiritual and emotional community.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

The prince who would know all, must ignore much.

20 No te aconsejes con tontos; porque éstos no pueden amar sino aquello que a ellos les place. 21 No consultes en presencia de un extraño o desconocido; porque no sabes lo que él maquina dentro de sí. 22 Ni descubras tu corazón a cualquier hombre; no sea que te muestre una falsa amistad, y te afrente. 9

If we played three CDs of praise at the same time, we'd have a cacophony of noise that would drive us crazy. This was totally different. Every sound blended, and each voice or instrument enhanced the others. As strange as it may seem, I could clearly distinguish each song. It sounded as if each hymn of praise was meant for me to hear as I moved inside the gates.

Lesson: Don't hold on to something's going to pull you into a trap. If you're going to let go, let go early. Better yet, don't take the bait at all.

Also: do not fuck with someone until you know exactly who the fuck you're fucking with. And then don't do it.

Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.

I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they dont know what theyre talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, I wish I knew as little about it as he does.

That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he'd get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, "If you got it, give it to us.

By the power of the Holy Spirit, he is a man of supernatural prudence. He ponders, prays, discerns, and acts. Prudence is his charioteer.

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

O be wise, what can I say more?

Life is too short to read a bad book.