Quotes About Discernment

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars.

The people are hungry for the bread of life. Do not offer them a stone.

In real life, the hardest aspect of the battle between good and evil is determining which is which.

Don't frustrate yourself by mistaking "associates" for "friends"! Everyone doesn't have your back. Identify the people in your life & don't expect them to be, who they're not!

To the young members of the Church, I promise that if you will listen, you will feel the Spirit well up within you. The Lord will tell you what He wants you to do with your life.

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

We can know a person by observing his behaviour, understanding the reasons for his actions and ascertaining his intentions. If we do this, how can we not know him?

Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?

People who do well in life understand things that other people don't understand.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

We can't always see what others don't want us to

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

We expect them to acquire a full mouth of teeth and learn where to deploy them (apples: yes; siblings: no).

Ça ne sert à rien de devenir amère parce qu'il y a des connards sur terre. S'il n'y avait pas de connards, tu ne saurais pas repérer les gens bien.

Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely.

I can just tell that you're the kind of girl who does.

Anybody with one eye and half a brain could tell what a tool that guy is.