Quotes about Discernment

Before we can speak God's message, we must learn to listen. The opened ear comes before the opened mouth.

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man with discernment sees through him.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

There must be several young women who would render the Christian life intensely difficult to him if only you could persuade him to marry one of them.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

Obedience starts with a pierced ear. It's tuning into God's frequency and turning up the volume. It's obeying His whispers, even if a thousand people are screaming something different. 'Tell me to what you pay attention,' said the Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, 'and I will tell you who are you.' You will eventually be shaped in the image of the loudest voice in your life. Genuine listening is ultimately an act of submission.

They have failed to understand the timelessness of Babylon, that Babylon is always with us. One careful reading of the major chapters about Babylon is all one needs to form a Babylonian hermeneutic that provides discernment of Babylon in America and in its churches. Yet repeated failed readings of Revelation have today led to a failure to discern Babylon.