Quotes about Discernment
It means, of course, that when you don't know what to do, when you don't know whether your character would do this or that, you get quiet and try to hear that still small voice inside. It will tell you what to do.
— Anne Lamott
He also knows the importance of intuition.
— Paulo Coelho
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'
— Bokeem Woodbine
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
— George Muller
Much harm may result from bad company and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse rather than what is better.
— Teresa of Avila
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson
The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.
— Joyce Meyer
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
— Philip Yancey
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
— John Milton