Discernment Quotes · Page 8

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be…

— Silouan the Athonite

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things-the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from…

— Anonymous

“The miracle is that the brilliance of the miraculous can live in the blandness of the mundane. The greater miracle is that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us…

— Joyce Meyer

“The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.”

— Criss Jami

“Be discerning with rumors on leaders, for most are birthed by the envy of the idle or the desperation of the defeated.”

— Orrin Woodward

Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room…

— Diane Dreher

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

— Charles Spurgeon

What is happening to our world is almost too colossal for human comprehension to contain...To contemplate its girth and its circumference, to…

— Arundhati Roy

To make a covenant with the Lord to always keep His commandments is a serious obligation, and to renew that covenant by…

— Howard W. Hunter

We need to know all the facts and be able to discern the situation before we pass judgment on someone. Sometimes life…

— Anonymous

“Among the gifts of the Spirit, scarcely is one of greater practical usefulness than the gift of discernment. This gift should be…

— A.W. Tozer

“The Christian should never have to put others down in order to feel good about himself. Instead, he can simply check out…

— Criss Jami

“Discernment is not once-and-for-all decision making at critical points in one's life (Should I take this job? Whom should I marry? Where…

— preface of Discernment

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a…

— Pope Francis

Schooling people in the ways of ongoing discernment produces a greater receptivity to the tradition of the church and at the same…

— Blase J. Cupich

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

— Louise Bourgeois

Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part…

— Donald Trump

Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we…

— Jean Gebser

For me in readings, I really have to be diplomatic and use discernment in what comes through because there is a lot…

— Tyler Henry

It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

True sincerity reveals a powerful form of clarity and discernment that is necessary in order to perceive yourself honestly without flinching or…

— Adyashanti

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the…

— Joan D. Chittister

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate…

— Stephen Covey

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

— Criss Jami

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important…

— Tim Cook

“Jesus, of course, had this capacity to see truly. For example, Saint John tells us, "Jesus did not want to entrust himself…

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the…

— Hank Hanegraaff

Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You can have large projects and implement them by means of a few of the smallest things. Or you can use weak…

— Pope Francis

“It is vitally important for women to learn how to think biblically for themselves instead of being enslaved to other people’s thoughts…

— sally clarkson

True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from…

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The word of wisdom is missing,” he continued. “We need the gift of discernment again in our pulpits. It is not ability…

— a.w. tozer

We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the…

— Niels Bohr

“Rather, vision casting calls for discernment here and now—discernment undergirded, guided, warned, and tested by the authoritative Word of almighty God in…

— Darrin Patrick

Enlightenment is construed as seeing things as they really are rather than as they appear; it is a direct insight into, and…

— Kim Hee-jin

“It is amazing how little we know about ourselves. God has o take us through all kinds of failures to reveal the…

— June Hunt

I began to firmly change my mind when I saw how young Egyptians used Facebook, for example, to begin to coalesce their…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and…

— Thomas Jefferson