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Quotes About Discern

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
many of us spend our days carefully trying to discern how much of the postmodern ethos presents new opportunities and how much of it presents a threat to the gospel, all the while navigating the bewildering mess in between.
~ Sarah Arthur
Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
In general the relative value of the various religions is a very difficult thing to discern; it is almost impossible, perhaps quite impossible. For a religion is known only from inside.
~ Simone Weil
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.
~ John Milton
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.
~ John Milton
As wee now wonder at the blindnesse of our Ancestors, who were not able to discerne such things as seeme plaine and obvious unto us. So will our posterity admire our ignorance in as perspicuous matters.
~ John Wilkins
LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. —PSALM 139:1–4
~ Sarah Young
But the reality is that most of these symbols would have been quite simple for anyone at the time to discern, whether a devoted Christian or a Roman pagan.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The trick is to discern a market – before there is any proof that one exists.
~ Max Gunther
Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God." 1 CORINTHIANS 10:31 Let's face it. None of us can do a thousand things to the glory of God. And in our vain attempt we stand the risk of forfeiting a precious thing—EXCELLENCE. Oh, that we might discern the will of God, surrender to His calling, resign the masses of activities, and sell out to do a few things well. What a legacy that would be for our children.
~ Beth Moore
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
~ Tom G. Palmer
God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.
~ Ellen G. White
Instead of encouraging those concerned to see the drinking in the context of the person's way of life, and thus to discern what role or roles it may play for that person in coping
~ Stanton Peele
There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.
~ Bram Stoker
Order. I must find some order. If the universe has none, or at least none we can discern, well, then it is our job to give it some. I have always believed that.
~ Tad Williams
We represent300 also all multiplications301 of light, which we carry to great distance, and make so sharp as to discern small points and lines; also all colorations of light:
~ Francis Bacon
In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies". HS/el
~ Evinda Lepins
In order to discern truth in our hearts, we must unpack the lies".
~ Evinda Lepins
There are four conditions that can either block or distort spiritual messages, making it more difficult to discern whether the message is coming from Spirit or is ego-generated. These are grief, pain, selfpity, and aggression without cause.
~ Steven D. Farmer
There are no coincidences in this world, Drustan, his father had said. You must see with the eagle's eye. You must detach, lift above a conundrum, and map the terrain of it. Everything happens for a reason, if you can but discern the pattern.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I believe we can discern the difference of a wise man momentarily giving way to intemperate emotion," said my father, "and a fool reveling in malice." My
~ Thomas Keneally
I read the line over and over as if I might discern the little fires set the flames of an idea licking the page how knowledge burns
~ Natasha Trethewey
In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.
~ Kevin Swanson