Discernment Quotes
If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.
Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.
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.
A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.
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.
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know - for comedians are the caricatures among us.
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.
I think that I am too warm to negatively judge individuals, yet I am cold enough to negatively judge humanity.
The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.
Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.
I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.
But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment with much vigour when selflove favors the deceit.
I've been blessed with a good head on my shoulders and quite a good ability of discernment. I can see through people.
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 intellectual discernment.
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.
Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.
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.
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.
Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad.
It's not at all hard to understand a person it's only hard to listen without bias.
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
General literature without the humbug, " was the New Yorker's original mission.
It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt
Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.
Wisdom teaches you when to use your discretion- with whom, what, and when to share your feelings and discernments...
It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.
We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.
Ladies: There are some men who will listen to all of your desires simply to use them to control you. #LearnToDiscernListen to what he does, Watch what he says and avoid the heartbreak.
My life is a series of invitations accepted and invitations rejected, and the place I now find myself is often a result of accepting the wrong invitations and rejecting the right ones.
More times than I’m willing to admit I am my own worst enemy, which suggests that more times than I’m willing to admit I should allow God to be my own best friend.
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.
Language consists in equal parts of speaking and silence.
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.
The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.
Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.
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.
Discernment is a light of protection and direction in a world that grows increasingly dark.
Sometimes you feel as though you've slandered yourself, but the joke's on them.
God Doesn’t Take Delight in Earthly Sacrifices Without Spiritual Connotation, but He Takes Pleasure in Total Submission
