Quotes About Discernment

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

What they could tell from an imprint I could barely see was astonishing. "This one old man—short steps," they'd say, touching the ground with a walking stick; or "This is woman carrying baby;" or "This one Swapo—man with gun walks proud. You see?" "Ah, yes, mm-hmm," I nodded, seeing nothing I could remotely identify as a footprint.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Problems can only be avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment can only be gained by experiencing life's problems.

Regardless of how intelligent we may be, if we make stupid choices, we will suffer the consequences.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

What is the one thing that you'd never be able to sell in the market? Common sense! Those who have it wouldn't need to buy it. Those who don't have it wouldn't know what to do with it.

Orang awam, menurut pengalaman Strike, akan terpaku pada motif, sementara kaum professional akan menempatkan kesempatan pada urutan pertama

Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware, and unaware.

The service that the whole world needs from the elders is not the service of hours spent and time put in and documents finished and machines fixed. There are untold numbers of people who can do all of those things. No, the service of the elders is not a service of labor, it is a service of enlightenment, of wisdom, of discernment of spirits. Only the carriers of generations past can give us those things, because wisdom is what lasts after an experience ends.

The essence of strategy," Porter often says, "is choosing what not to do.

we do need to learn how to say no, but only so we are able to say yes to God when he wants to give us an assignment.

Bir ÅŸeyi övmek, bir baÅŸka ÅŸeyi kötülemek anlam?na gelmez.

I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.

I'm not a stranger to your love of lost causes, dear one. But you have to be careful who you meet," he said, stoking a pipe thoughtfully. "You can't unmeet them.

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

The wise speaker first learns when to stay silent

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.

but it seemed too early for gossip, like going on vacation and buying a house on the first day.

They may all look alike in the fog, brother, but not under electric light.

It reminds us that we are not called to be parrots, unquestioningly repeating whatever we learn from a favorite teacher. Instead, we are to exercise wisdom and discernment, continually asking questions, weighing answers, seeking understanding, and grounding our beliefs within the context of God's Word and the wisdom of Christian tradition.

Yet solitude is still to be prized in the craziness of our modern world. Times alone with God and away from daily pressures can help us discern the still, small voice of God.

Consider the following rabbinic parable: There are four types among those who sit in the presence of the rabbis: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. "The sponge," which soaks up everything. "The funnel," which takes in at this end and lets out at the other. "The strainer," which lets out the wine and retains the dregs. "The sieve," which removes the chaff and retains the fine flour. 19