Discernment Quotes
Discernment Quote of the day
I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.
The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.
They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.
The common theme of common sense is that it’s commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
When your madness is creative and necessary, people will not notice the fact that you are crazy.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.
In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that burned within them. This kind of beauty is the bonfire you had to attend.
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
In the end, only God can see the heart of an individual and distinguish the difference between legalistic deadweight and the passion of holy solemnity.
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made.
Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.
The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott notes that one of the signs of being cold today is that one knows what one doesn't have to know.
People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently.
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.
Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine are slow to fret about being criticized.
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.
A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.
Sometimes it takes a lowly, title-less man to humble the world. Kings, rulers, CEOs, judges, doctors, pastors, they are already expected to be greater and wiser.
Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.
Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.
The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.
Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.
Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
