Quotes About Discernment

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

Often our students see nothing about religious faith except the lowest common denominator. They see nothing but TV evangelists and fools, and it doesn't occur to them that intelligent people might find this religious business worth living their lives by.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If you start to smell some of the shit, you start smelling all of the shit

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Which leads to a question that everybody in genuinely diverse and pluralistic societies must at some point ask: 'Do we take other people at face value, or do we try to read behind their words and actions, claim to see into their hearts and there divine the true motives which their speech and actions have not yet revealed?

Our inability to identify rotten fruit on the branches means that we are especially unable to identify a problem at the root.

If you reduce everything to skin color, you are like someone whose library catalog system puts all the red books over here, and all the gray ones over there. But what do the books say? What are they about? Shouldn't we file them in accordance with what they are saying?

When a man singles a woman out for attention, he should have one thing clear in his mind. (Actually, a young Christian woman should understand the same thing as well.) To some extent, one of two things is happening. The first option is that the man is attempting to get the woman into bed dishonorably. The other possibility is that he is trying to do it honorably. If this sounds crass, you may not fully appreciate the holiness of the marriage bed.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used

MAKING WISE DECISIONS: When GOD brings something to your mind-----Don't let it pass without dealing with it.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.

You know how I play it, better safe than sorry stead of searching for substance at every single party.

A truly effective leader, however, must be able to see the shades of gray inherent in a situation in order to make wise decisions as to how to proceed. The essence of thinking gray is this: don't form an opinion about an important matter until you've heard all the relevant facts.

People who know how to keep their mouths shut are rare.

The real problem of prediction, in other words, is not that we are universally good or bad at it, but rather that we are bad at distinguishing predictions that we can make reliably from those that we can't.

God helps watchmen by pointing out what needs to be seen and heard to aid the growth and health of a church.

Don't be without understanding of the way your enemy thinks and operates—of his plans, plots, schemes and devices." Is there not also a subtle promise here? If God suggests we are not to be ignorant of Satan's schemes, He must be willing to reveal them to us.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.