Discernment Quotes

91 Discernment quotes by 74 unique authors

We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe. — Charles R. Swindoll
The fourth paradigm forces us at every point to discern between the creationally valid and the sinfully perverse and thus confronts us with a never-ending… — Albert M. Wolters
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day. — Mary Anne Radmacher
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of… — Julian Baggini
Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust,… — Aberjhani
Discernment: Corruption's worst enemy. — George Richard Marek
For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the… — Muhammad Asad
Discernment is the son of good judgment and the father of self-control. When mixed with an already clear conscience, the ability to read the true… — Criss Jami
When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual. — Criss Jami
God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies. — Criss Jami
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
My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that… — Pope Francis
Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself! — Confucius
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things… — Isak Dinesen
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.… — Abraham Lincoln
The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. — Niccolo Machiavelli
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. — Marshall McLuhan
When a person goes into a relationship emotionally needy, they are not going to have discernment in choosing people. — Jennifer O'Neill
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging. — Molly Ivins
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… — Jane Austen
Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we… — Martha Beck
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The… — Brennan Manning
Does the mainstream media have a liberal bias? On a couple of things, maybe. Compared to the American public at large, probably a slightly higher… — Al Franken
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of… — Anne Lamott

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