Discernment Quotes
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.
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.
He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.
It's remarkable how very many things there are that a king may not do.
Real life applications get tricky when we think about them.
To discern profits only when it is within the ken of the market herd is not the acme of investing excellence
And, to be true, an enemy's lair is an enemy's lair, no matter how comfortable or fancy it might appear.
The infant New York Times boasted that no newspaper printing what was really worth reading ever perished for lack of readers.