Discernment Quotes
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Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
— Diane Dreher
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
— Chanakya
When we say disparaging things, even about inanimate objects, they can stick, so use discernment as to what you put out to the universe.
— Russell Eric Dobda
In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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.
— William Howard Taft
Don't condemn what you can't comprehend
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
— Oswald Chambers
To be 'in the will of God' is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart.
— Oswald Chambers
Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.
— John Ferling
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Knowing someone's mind is insight;
knowing someone's heart is discernment;
knowing someone's soul is understanding. — Matshona Dhliwayo
knowing someone's heart is discernment;
knowing someone's soul is understanding. — Matshona Dhliwayo
A man without God's discernment loses the peace of God.
— Sunday Adelaja
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
— Criss Jami
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
— Eugene H. Peterson
The common theme of common sense is that it's commonly rejected as uncommonly demanding.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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.
— Joseph Epstein
Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment, and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
My wisdom absent of God's wisdom is nothing more than a best-guess.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
— Assegid Habtewold
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.
— John Adams
When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people.
— Jennifer O'Neill
Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
— Charles Spurgeon
Discernment is trust put into practice.
— Peter Santos
Will You help me hear the song You're singing over all this noise?
— Steven Curtis Chapman
A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment.
— R. Alan Woods
It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.
— Lyndon Johnson
The primary reason we do too much is that we have never taken the time to discover that portion of what we do that makes the biggest difference.
— Andy Stanley
Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.
— Criss Jami
If Justice is pictured blindfold, it is because she judges causes, not men, and not because the prime faculty of an arbitrator is lack of discernment.
— Charles Wagner
Our best-laid plans are often our worst-made decisions.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We should use discernment to connect dots, avoid traps, and make wise judgments without becoming too judgmental, suspicious, and faultfinders.
— Assegid Habtewold
Our discernment of Christian doctrines must include a basic knowledge of the history of the church.
— Anonymous
A man without the discernment of time is walking in the dark.
— Sunday Adelaja
Instinct is all of our humanity being deliberately honest with all of life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
Everything in discernment of spirits is directed toward action: toward firmly accepting what is of God and equally firmly rejecting what is not.
— Timothy M. Gallagher
The day may come when it takes some discernment to tell when someone loves you for you and when someone wants to stand near your fire.
— Jeff Zentner
Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings; it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
John Quincy Adams strove to escape commonplace thoughts.
— Paul C. Nagel
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.
— David Anthony Durham
Tolerance never exists without negative judgment. It is the sentiment of having a negative opinion about something yet still putting up with it.
— Criss Jami
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
— Kevin DeYoung
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
— Kevin DeYoung
Father, give me the wisdom and discernment to hear Your still, small voice through the loudness of this world.
— Anonymous
To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
— Criss Jami
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
— Corrie Ten Boom
I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.
— Kellan Lutz
Intelligence is not discernment and judgment or critical evaluation.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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.
— Joyce Meyer
The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.
— Criss Jami
Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment ...
— Pliny The Younger
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim.
— John Owen
A duke's son MUST know about poisons. It's the way of our times.
— Frank Herbert
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.
— John C. Maxwell
It has always seemed that a fear of judgment is the mark of guilt and the burden of insecurity.
— Criss Jami
Don't build your dreams on the opinions of men but on the promises of God
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.
— Sherry Turkle
A leader should accurately discern deceit.
— Sunday Adelaja
It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.
— Samuel Johnson
A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
— Emil M. Cioran
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
— Criss Jami
Opportunities are seldom labeled.
— John G. Shedd
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
— Lewis B. Smedes
We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
— Criss Jami
When the urgent crowds out the important, people urgently accomplish nothing of value.
— Orrin Woodward
Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
— Henry David Thoreau
The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure.
— Wayne Thomas Batson
And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.
— Steven J. Carroll
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
— Joan Halifax
Because of this ever increasing discernment of the true Mason he/she will find more efficient ways to apply brotherly love, relief and truth.
— George Washington
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.
— Anthony Liccione
Don't ask God to show you the way if you're not willing to get moving.
— Kellen Roggenbuck
Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power.
— James O'Dea
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.
— Criss Jami
It is the interplay between our experience and how we respond to it that makes karma devastating or helpfully invigorating.
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
— Geraldine Brooks
This is a time when all of God's people need to keep their eyes and their Bibles wide open. We must ask God for discernment as never before.
— David Jeremiah
The Bible says we need to love our enemies, bless our enemies. It does not say we should assume our enemies' priorities.
— David McGee