Quotes about Discernment

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

God doesn't want us to be happy when it causes us to do something wrong or unwise

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Look, the American people are smart.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

One would not generally put garbage into the stomach, but too often one will put garbage into the mind.

In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.

You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, What are your thinking about? you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.