Discernment Quotes

Discernment Quote of the day

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

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.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness.

It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.

The more validation I need, the less discernment I have.

During my short time on earth I have realized that opportunities are seldom labeled.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

Reflection and action must never be undertaken independently.

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

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

The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

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.

It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.

Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.

Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.

Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

True knowledge is a virtue of the talented, but harmful to those without discernment. Spring water free of impurity, entering the ocean, becomes undrinkable.

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.

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.

I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.

To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.